You Threw Me A Lemon (Miguel Hernandez Poems)
You threw me a lemon, so bitter,with a hand warm and so pure,that its shape was not spoiled,and I tasted ...
You threw me a lemon, so bitter,with a hand warm and so pure,that its shape was not spoiled,and I tasted ...
I know not from what distant timethou art ever coming nearer to meet me.Thy sun and stars can never keep ...
To me, no Fame terrestrialThat travels far through land and nationTo hold them thrillingly in thrallWith its far-flung reverberationIs worth ...
I am as a spirit who has dweltWithin his heart of hearts, and I have feltHis feelings, and have thought ...
A home above the year's seasonshome of children animals and applesa square of empty spaceunder an absent starhome was the ...
Fleas interest me so muchthat I let them bite me for hours.They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit,machines that admit of no ...
Oh, noble grief of the suffering soulThat into free verse bursts out...Would you perchance take comfortIn adorning the world with ...
Oh, noble grief of the suffering soulThat into free verse bursts out...Would you perchance take comfortIn adorning the world with ...
O the wonderOf that music in my ear!How it touches-pains those fibresOf my soul-life which I fear!Fear because they wake ...
Oh blue-eyed Ella's face is fair,And beautiful her braided hair,As fair the feelings that do speakUpon her pure and placid ...
Bend low, blue sky,Touch my forehead:You look cool . . . bend down . . .Flow about me in your ...
Tenderly, lute of mine, sing.Make thy throat as a horn of plenty,Through which the songs of ages shall flow;For music ...
The saffron of virtue and contentmentIs dissolved in the water-gun of love and affection.Pink and red clouds of emotion are ...
What matter the pangs of a husband and father, If his sorrows in exile be great or be small,So the Pharisee's ...
AT the Poet's life-core lyingIs a sheltered and sacred nest,Where, as yet, unfledged for flying,His callow fancies rest:Fancies, and thoughts, ...
All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooksAre life eternal: and in silence theySpeak happiness beyond the reach of books;There's ...
I would to heaven that I were so much clay,As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feeling -Because at least ...
Her lonely boat fated to float aimlesslymidstream, weary with sadness, drifting.Her hold overflowing with duty and feeling,bow rocked by storms, ...
The young are quick of speech.Grown middle-aged, I teachCorrosion and distrust,Exacting what I must.A poem is what standsWhen imperceptive hands,Feeling, ...
I have a feeling that my boathas struck, down there in the depths,against a great thing. And nothinghappens! Nothing...Silence...Waves... --Nothing happens? Or ...
When lovely woman wants a favor,And finds, too late, that man won't bend,What earthly circumstance can save herFrom disappointment in ...
E'es fail, grow weary wi' seein'.Lips still, grown heavy o' wordin'.Hearts stop, iced of emotion.Feet no longer move, but hands,Ah ...
The autumn air is clear,The autumn moon is bright.Fallen leaves gather and scatter,The jackdaw perches and starts anew.We think of ...
It is nice to get a glimpse of a lady bathing--You scrubbed your flower face and cleansed your lovely bodyWhile ...
Of this world of oursWhat has become, indeed?Whispers in the windBring autumn's satiatedFeelings, though.(Ise)
Leg-wearyingBetween the indigo mountains fallWhite snowflakes:Robes dyed that hueSpark such feelings.(Ise)
In the autumn fieldsBlooming intermingledThe flowers' huesAre a riotOf feeling for me now. (Ki no Tsurayuki)
Feeling:This thing-most of all-isThe world of men'sUnbreakableBond. (Ono no Komachi)
Feeling so lonelyI go to bedI don't have even a book to read (Hosai Ozaki)
A Microcosm In Terza RimaI.Quiet I lay at last, and knew no moreWhether I breathed or not, so worn I ...
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