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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: VALLEJO, CESAR Matches Found: 486 Vallejo, Cesar Poet's Biography 486 poems available by this author ¿........ First Line: Si te amara Last Line: Ya retona Subject(s): Amor - Quejas ÁGAPE First Line: Hoy no ha venido Last Line: Y hoy he muerto Subject(s): DesesperaciÓn; Soledad .........? First Line: If I loved you...What then?' Last Line: Already the jungle is climbing in my window! .........? First Line: If I loved you...What would it be?' Last Line: Already the forest sprouts in my window! Subject(s): Love - Complaints 18 First Line: Oh! The four walls of the cell! 28 First Line: I now have lunched alone, I have had 44 First Line: This piano travels within A MAN WALKS BY WITH A LOAF OF BREAD ON HIS SHOULDER Poem Text Last Line: How speak of the not-I without crying out? Subject(s): Human Behavior ABSENT Poem Text First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse; Separation; Isolation; Parting ABSENT First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away Last Line: A pack of hunting hounds of remorse! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse ABSOLUTA First Line: Color de ropa Last Line: Una arruga Subject(s): Amor; Dios ABSOLUTE Poem Text First Line: Color of ancient garments. A july in shadow Last Line: A furrow, a shadow! Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting ABSOLUTE First Line: Color of ancient garments. A july in shadow Last Line: Upon the virgin plenitude of 1. %a furrow, a shadow! Subject(s): Farewell; Love ABSOLUTE DOCTRINE First Line: The color of old clothes. A july in shadows Last Line: A wrinkle, a shadow! ADJUSTMENT OF FEVER First Line: Across the images of saints hanged Last Line: And the visit begins, to help me to live right Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Parents; Travel AGAPE Poem Text First Line: Today no-one has come to inquire Subject(s): Solitude AGAPE First Line: Today no one has come to inquire Last Line: And today I have died so little in the afternoon AGAPE First Line: Today no one's come to call Last Line: And today how little I have died this afternoon AGAPE First Line: Today no one's come by to inquire Last Line: And I've died so little this afternoon! Subject(s): Despair; Solitude AGAPE First Line: Today no-one has come to inquire Last Line: And today I have died how little on this evening Subject(s): Despair; Solitude ALDEANA First Line: Lejana vibracion Last Line: Como un viejo Subject(s): Muerte; PÉrdida; Rezo ALTARPIECE First Line: I tell myself: finally I've escaped the noise Last Line: Weep the monotonous suicide of god! AMOR First Line: Amor, ya no Last Line: Que ama y Subject(s): Amor; Ausencia; Corazones; Pena AMOR PROHIBIDO First Line: Subes centelleante Last Line: El amor es Subject(s): Amor - Naturaleza De AND DON'T BOTHER TELLING ME ANYTHING Last Line: Or sitting drunk in my coffin AND SO? THE PALE METALLOID HEALS YOU Last Line: Do the metalloids work with your anguish ANGER Poem Text First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy ANGER First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis ANGER First Line: Anger that breaks a man into children ANGER THAT BREAKS A MAN DOWN INTO BOYS Last Line: Owns one deep fire againsst two craters ANGER THAT BREAKS THE MAN INTO CHILDREN Last Line: Has one central fire against two craters Subject(s): Men APARTA DE MI ESTE CALIZ First Line: Children of the world %if spain falls Last Line: Go and find her ASCUAS First Line: Lucire para Last Line: Mi sangre, como Subject(s): PoesÍa Y Poetas; Sangre; Tragedia AUSENTE First Line: Ausente! La Last Line: Una jauria de Subject(s): AdiÓs; Ausencia AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 1 Poem Text First Line: The laborer's fist becomes velvet Last Line: A modern sun-god for the peasant Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Music & Musicians; Wine AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 1 First Line: The laborer's fist becomes velvet Last Line: The modern sungod for the peasant Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Music And Musicians AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2 Poem Text First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2 First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: That the farmer sows in the skies and the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds And Shepherdesses AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 3 Poem Text First Line: Daybreak. The chicha finally explodes Last Line: Tucks up her saffron-colored thighs Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 3 First Line: Daybreak. The chicha finally explodes Last Line: Unfurls her saffron calves Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Native Americans AUTUCHTHONOUS TERCET First Line: The laboring fist becomes soft as velvet Last Line: Unfurls its saffron-colored calves AVESTRUZ First Line: Melancolia, saca Last Line: Y desnuda tu Subject(s): Alimento Y El Comer; Corazones; MelancolÍa; PÁjaros; Pena AWAY First Line: Away! The morning when I go away Last Line: Amidst a cry of bronzes, will cross %a pack of hounds of remorse! BABBLE First Line: Meek house with no style, framed Last Line: Other times she breaks down and cries BABEL First Line: Sweet home without style, built Last Line: Other times she just starts to cry! BABEL First Line: Sweet home of no style, fabricated Last Line: And other times she just starts to cry! Subject(s): Grief BABEL First Line: Dulce hogar Last Line: Y otras veces Subject(s): Pena BAJO LOS ÁLAMOS First Line: Cual hieraticos Last Line: Traza su aullido Subject(s): Pastores BENEATH THE ELMS First Line: Like poet-priests who have been emprisoned Last Line: And a dog composes a howling pastorale BLACK CUP First Line: The night is a cup of evil. A police whistle Last Line: And other desires to drink start pawing inside my flesh BLACK CUP First Line: The night is a cup of evil. A shrill police Last Line: And more desires to drink paw in my flesh! BLACK CUP First Line: The night is a cup of evil. A watchman's stinging Last Line: And more desires to drink paw inside my flesh BLACK CUP First Line: The night's a cup of evil. The shrill whistle Last Line: Stamp their hooves in my flesh! Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love BLACK HERALDS First Line: There are blows in life, so hard...I just don't know! Last Line: There are blows in life, so hard...I just don't know! BLACK HERALDS First Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Last Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Subject(s): Black (color); Death; Ignorance; Pain; Religion BLACK MESSENGERS First Line: In life there are blowers so heavy. 'I don't know' BLACK MESSENGERS First Line: There are some blows in life so hard...I don't know! Last Line: There are some blows in life so hard...I don't know Subject(s): Curses; Fate; Hunger; Poverty BLACK RIDERS First Line: There are blows in life so violent -- I can't answer Last Line: There are blows in life so violent...I can't answer Subject(s): Men BLACK STONE LYING ON A WHITE STONE First Line: I will die in paris, on a rainy day Last Line: The solitude, and the rain, and the roads Subject(s): Death; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917) BLACK STONE ON A WHITE STONE First Line: I'll die in paris on a rainy day Last Line: The lonely solitude, the rain, the roads Subject(s): Death BLACK STONE ON A WHITE STONE First Line: I will die in paris in a heavy downpour Last Line: Attesting to loneliness, rain and long roads BLACK STONE ON A WHITE STONE First Line: I will die in paris with a hard dirty rain Last Line: Straight with myself BLACK STONE ON TOP OF A WHITE STONE Poem Text First Line: I'll die in paris with a rainstorm Subject(s): Death; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917) BLACK STONE ON TOP OF A WHITE STONE First Line: I shall die in paris, in a rainstorm BOOK OF SAINTS First Line: Old osiris! I came as far as the wall Last Line: Managed to convince me, nothing, nothing BORDAS DE HIELO First Line: Vengo a verte Last Line: Y quien habra Subject(s): Ausencia; Muerte; Naves Y EnvÍo; Presencia BURNING COALS First Line: For tilia, I will hold up my stanzas in the tragedy Last Line: My blood like a virus, in a lily! CAPITUALCIÓN First Line: Anoche, unos Last Line: De noche entran Subject(s): Amor; Besos; El Cortejar CAPITULATION First Line: Last night, some april seeds surrendered Last Line: Two serpent slaves enter my life at night Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love CATALOGUE OF BONES First Line: They were demanding in a loud voice Last Line: And that was not possible CHALK First Line: Silence. Here it's already night Last Line: As in a cathedral in mourning Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion CHRISTMAS EVE Poem Text First Line: As the orchestra stops playing, veiled Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Night; Nativity, The; Bedtime CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: As the orchestra stops playing, veiled Last Line: That the child-jesus of your love has been born Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Night CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: When the orchestra stops playing, hidden Last Line: That the child-jesus of your love has been born COMMUNION Poem Text First Line: Beautiful regia! Your veins are the fermentations COMMUNION First Line: Beautiful regia! Your veins are the ferments Last Line: Faraway from bethlehem forever! COMMUNION First Line: Beautiful regia! Your veins are the fermentations Last Line: Already forever far from bethlehem! Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Eucharist; Mothers COMUNIÓN First Line: Linda regia Last Line: Ya lejos para Subject(s): Cuerpos; Madres; Sangre CONSIDERANDO EN FRIO, IMPARCIALMENTE First Line: Considering things cooly, objectively Last Line: What more can I give? Tears - tears - CONSIDERANDO EN FRIO, IMPARCIALMENTE... Last Line: Que mas da Subject(s): Amor - Quejas; Corazones CONSIDERING COLDLY, IMPARTIALLY Poem Text Last Line: So what! Moved . . . Moved . . . Subject(s): Grief; Conduct Of Life CONSIDERING COLDLY, IMPARTIALLY Last Line: What the hell. Moved...Deeply moved Subject(s): Melancholy; Sympathy CUAL MI EXPLANACION First Line: Whatever my alibi Last Line: And I do earn a wage of five cents DE PURO CALOR TENGO FRIO First Line: Even when it is very hot, I am cold Last Line: Father, my body DE TODO ESTO YO SOY EL UNICO QUE PARTE First Line: I am the only one who's leaving everything behind Last Line: Right up to the crease in the arm of my clean buttoned shirt DEAD IDYLL Poem Text First Line: What is she doing now, my andean, sweet DEAD IDYLL First Line: What would my sweet andean rita of the rushes and wild Last Line: And a wild bird on the roof tiles will cry DEAD IDYLL First Line: What is she doing now, my andean, sweet Last Line: And in the roof's thatched canes, a wild bird will cry Subject(s): Absence DEPTH AND HEIGHT First Line: I wish I could write, but only spume comes out Last Line: Let's go, crow, and impregnate the lady cow DESHOJACIÓN SAGRADA First Line: Luna! Corona Last Line: Que vaga en Subject(s): Corazones; Luna DESHORA First Line: Pureza amada Last Line: Nacio muy poco Subject(s): Amor; Ausencia; Memoria DESNUDO EN BARRO First Line: Como horribles Last Line: Un sexo de Subject(s): Amor; El Cortejar; Los Gustos Y Tienen AversiÓn DIOS First Line: Siento a dios Last Line: Debe dolerte Subject(s): Amor; Corazones; Dios DISTANT FOOTSTEPS First Line: My father sleeps. His august face DISTANT FOOTSTEPS First Line: My father sleeps. His august expression Last Line: Down them, my heart travels on foot Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Love; Parents DISTANT FOOTSTEPS First Line: My father is asleep. His august countenance Last Line: Down them my heart goes on foot DISTANT FOOTSTEPS First Line: My father is sleeping. His noble face Last Line: Down them my heart is walking on foot Subject(s): Men DIVINE FALLING OF LEAVES First Line: Moon: royal crown of an enormous head Last Line: Who loafs in the sky, shedding poems like tears DOWN TO THE DOGS First Line: This afternoon it rains as never before; and I Last Line: Don't feel like staying alive, heart Subject(s): Peru; Rain; Tears; Weather DOWN TO THE DREGS Poem Text First Line: This afternoon it rains as never before; and I DREGS First Line: This evening it's raining more than ever; and I have no Last Line: It is raining this evening, pouring rain. And I have no %desire to go on living, heart! DREGS First Line: This afternoon it rains, as never before; and I don't Last Line: This afternoon it rains, it pours. And I don't %want to live, heart! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Rain; Tears; Weather DREGS First Line: This afternoon it is raining as never before EL ALMA QUE SUFRIO DE SER SU CUERPO First Line: Obviously you are suffering from your endocrine gland Last Line: I said: to your good health, go on suffering EL PALCO ESTRECHO First Line: Mas aca, mas aca Last Line: Avanza, avanza Subject(s): Audiencias; Teatro Y Teatros EL PAN NUESTRO First Line: Se bebe el Last Line: Aqui, en el Subject(s): Alimento Y El Comer; Corazones; Hambre; PerdÓn; Pobreza EL POETA A SU AMADA First Line: Amada, en esta Last Line: Los dos nos dormiremos Subject(s): Muerte; PoesÍa Y Poetas EL TÁLAMO ETERNO First Line: Solo al dejar Last Line: En una cita Subject(s): Amor; Besos; Corazones EMBERS Poem Text First Line: In the tragedy, I'll light for tilia Subject(s): Blood; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy EMBERS First Line: In the tragedy, I'll light for tilia Last Line: You'll drink my blood, like a virus! Subject(s): Blood; Poetry And Poets; Tragedy EN EL RINCON AQUEL DONDE DORMINOS JUNTOS First Line: In this corner where we slept together Last Line: Ghost to ghost EN LAS TIENDAS GRIEGAS First Line: Y el alma Last Line: En el desfiladero Subject(s): Corazones; Pena ENCAJE DE FIEBRE First Line: Por los cuadros Last Line: Y la visita nace Subject(s): Casero; El Viajar Y Viajes; Padres ENEREIDA First Line: Mi padre, apenas Last Line: De hermana de Subject(s): Amor; Padres; Vejez ESPAÑA, APARTA DE MÍ ESTE CÁLIZ First Line: Ninos del mundo Last Line: Salid, ninos del Subject(s): EspaÑa; Patriotismo ESPERGESIA First Line: Yo naci un Last Line: Grave Subject(s): Enfermedad; Hermanos; Muerte ESTAIS MEURTOS First Line: You people are dead ETERNAL BRIDAL BED Poem Text First Line: Only when it ceases to be is love strong! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love ETERNAL BRIDAL BED First Line: Only when it ends is love strong! Last Line: In love's universal tryst Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love ETERNAL DICE First Line: God of mine, I am weeping for the life that I live Last Line: In the hollow of the enormous grave ETERNAL DICE First Line: My god, I am crying over the life I live Last Line: That can only stop in a hole, %in the hole of an immense grave ETERNAL DICE First Line: My god, I'm crying over the life I live Last Line: The void of an immense grave Subject(s): Death; God; Religion ETERNAL MARRIAGE BED First Line: Only when it ceases to be, is love strong! Last Line: Sweet is the darkness, where everyone unites %in a universal tryst of love EXEGESIS Poem Text First Line: I was born on a day / that god was sick Last Line: That I masticate... Yet they don't know Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sickness; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Illness EXEGESIS First Line: I was born on a day %that god was sick Last Line: That god was sick, %gravely Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sickness FEVERLACE First Line: Along the paintings of saints on the wall Last Line: And the visit begins, it helps me to live right FIT OF ANGUISH First Line: Sweet hebrew woman, unnail my passage of clay Last Line: Sings its sweet asiatic rejoicing...! FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE SOUL OF MY BELOVED First Line: Beloved: you have never wanted to take the form Last Line: Let me whip myself %like a sinner FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE SOUL OF MY BELOVED First Line: Beloved: you've never wanted to be shaped Last Line: Let me flog myself %as a sinner Subject(s): Hearts; Love FORBIDDEN LOVE Poem Text First Line: You rise, sparkling of lips and dark-ringed eyes! Subject(s): Love FORBIDDEN LOVE First Line: You rise with lips and dark-circled eyes sparkling! Last Line: Love is a sinning christ! FORBIDDEN LOVE First Line: You rise, sparkling of lips and dark-ringed eyes! Last Line: Love is a sinning christ! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of FRESCO Poem Text First Line: I came to confuse myself with her FRESCO First Line: I came to confuse myself with her Last Line: The blue, unedited hand of god! FRESCO First Line: I came to confuse myself with her Last Line: The blue, unedited hand of god! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love FRESCO First Line: Llegue a confundirme Last Line: La mano azul Subject(s): Amor; Ausencia; Corazones FUÉ DOMINGO EN LAS CLARAS OREJAS DE MI BURRO' Last Line: Quiero decir mi Subject(s): Estatuas FUNEREAL DRUM-ROLL FOR THE REMAINS OF DURANGO Poem Text First Line: Father dust who rises from spain, Subject(s): Spain; God GOD First Line: I feel that god is traveling Last Line: Must all the time give you great pain GOD First Line: I feel god who walks Last Line: Your heart must ache so much GOD First Line: I feel god who travels Last Line: Your heart must hurt you so much Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love GODLESS WOMAN First Line: Lord! You were behind the windows Last Line: And she sells bread to the vile jew! GODLESS WOMAN First Line: Lord! You were behind the glass Last Line: And to the vile jew she sells bread! Subject(s): Absence; Funerals GROWN UPS GUNWALES OF ICE Poem Text First Line: Every day I come to watch you pass by Subject(s): Absence; Death; Presence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The GUNWALES OF ICE First Line: Every day I come to watch you pass by Last Line: And I'll be the one who's gone Subject(s): Absence; Death; Presence; Ships And Shipping GYPSUM First Line: Silence. Here, night has fallen already Last Line: And the feminine in my soul will resound %as in a cathedral cloaked in morning HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO SAY IN YOUR DEFENSE Poem Text First Line: Well, on the day I was born Subject(s): Men HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO SAY IN YOUR DEFENSE First Line: Well, on the day I was born Last Line: One the day I was born, %god was sick, %gravely Subject(s): Men HECES First Line: Esta tarde llueve Last Line: Tengo ganas de Subject(s): Amor; AtmÓsfera; Corazones; LÁgrimas; Lluvia; Pena HEIGHT AND HAIR First Line: Who doesn't have a blue suit? Last Line: Ay! I who've only been solely born! HOJAS DE ÉBANO First Line: Fulge mi cigarillo Last Line: Aun la veo envueltita Subject(s): Abuelos; Muerte; Vejez HOY ME GUSTA LA VIDA MUCHO MENOS' Last Line: Y siempre, mucho Subject(s): Vejez HUACO Poem Text First Line: I am the blind coraquenque Last Line: At times in my stones the broken muscles of an extinxt puma twitch Subject(s): Death HUACO First Line: I am the blind coraquenque Last Line: A ferment of sun; %yeast of darkness and heart! HUACO First Line: I am the blind coraquenque Last Line: A ferment of sun; %yeast of shadow and heart! Subject(s): Incas; Old Age HUACO First Line: Yo soy el coranqueque Last Line: Levadura de sombra Subject(s): Incas; Vejez HUNGRY MAN'S WHEEL First Line: From between my own teeth I come out smoking Last Line: And now I have nothing, this is hideous Variant Title(s): The Starving Man's Rac Subject(s): Poverty HYMN TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: Volunteer of spain, militiaman Last Line: The course of water rushing to see its limit before it burns Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1939-1939) HYMN TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE REPUBLIC, SELECTION First Line: Battles? No! Agonies! And before the agonies Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty HYMN TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE REPUBLIC, SELS. First Line: Battles? No! Agonies! And before the agonies Last Line: And gold itself shall then be golden Subject(s): Freedom I AM GOING TO SPEAK OF HOPE Poem Text First Line: I do not suffer this pain as cesar vallejo Subject(s): Men I AM GOING TO SPEAK OF HOPE First Line: I do not suffer this pain as cesar vallejo Last Line: Today I am simply in pain Subject(s): Men I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOPE' Poem Text First Line: I do not feel this suffering as cesar vallejo. I am not Last Line: Today I am in pain, no matter what happens. Today I am simply in pain Subject(s): Hope; Hunger; Poetry & Poets; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917); Optimism I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOPE' Poem Text First Line: I do not feel this suffering as cesar vallejo. I am not I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOPE' First Line: I do not feel this suffering as cesar vallejo. I am not Last Line: Today I am simply in pain Subject(s): Hope; Hunger; Poetry And Poets; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917) I HAVE A TERRIBLE FEAR OF BEING AN ANIMAL Last Line: For life with its three possibilities I STAYED HERE, WARMING THE INK IN WHICH I DROWN Last Line: Ink, pen, bricks, and forgivings I'M THINKING OF YOUR SEX Poem Text Last Line: Oh mute outcry. / odumodneurtse! Subject(s): Love – Erotic I'M THINKING OF YOUR SEX Last Line: Odumodneurtse! Subject(s): Conscience ICE BOAT First Line: I come to see you go by every day Last Line: But he who departs will be I ICY GUNWHALES First Line: I come everyday to watch you pass by Last Line: And who will have left will be I...! IDILIO MUERTO First Line: Que estara haciendo Last Line: Y llorara en Subject(s): Ausencia IF I LOVED YOU...WHAT WOULD IT BE?' Poem Text Last Line: All ritualistic, but not as sweet Subject(s): Jealousy IF IT RAINED TONIGHT, I SHOULD RETREAT III First Line: What time are the big people Last Line: Don't leave me behind by myself, %to be locked in all alone IMPÍA First Line: Senor! Estabas Last Line: Y al vil judio Subject(s): Ausencia; Entierros IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS First Line: In the mansiche landscapes the twilight Last Line: Like a gigantic huaco keeping vigil IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1 Poem Text First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1 First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche Last Line: As if a firmament were being exhumed Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 2 Poem Text First Line: The pensive, ancient woman, like a relief Subject(s): Nostalgia; Old Age IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 2 First Line: The pensive, ancient woman, like a relief Last Line: Where a shipwrecked manco-capac weeps Subject(s): Nostalgia; Old Age IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 3 Poem Text First Line: Like ancient curacas, the oxen Subject(s): Old Age IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 3 First Line: Like ancient curacas, the oxen Last Line: A ancient, exiled coraquenque Subject(s): Old Age IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 3 First Line: Como viejos curacas Last Line: Un viejo coraquenque Subject(s): Vejez IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 4 Poem Text First Line: Withered, harvested, bare, the grass Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Weariness; Fatigue IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 4 First Line: Withered, harvested, bare, the grass Last Line: Dreams, like a giant huaco that keeps vigil Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Weariness IN THAT CORNER WHERE WE SLEPT TOGETHER Last Line: Two doors that come and go with the wind %shadow - to - shadow IN THE GREEK TENTS First Line: And the soul was frightened Last Line: Through the narrow pass of my nerves! IN THE GREEK TENTS First Line: And the soul grew afraid Last Line: In the narrow ravine of my nerves! Subject(s): Hearts; Pain IT WAS SUNDAY IN THE FAIR EARS OF MY BURRO Poem Text Last Line: I mean my tremulous patriotic hairdo Subject(s): Peru IT WAS SUNDAY IN THE FAIR EARS OF MY BURRO Last Line: I mean my tremulous patriotic hairdo Subject(s): Festivals; Peru; Statues JANUARAENEID First Line: My father, barely, %in the bird morning, puts Last Line: Of a sister of charity, o my father! Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Parents JANUARY EPIC First Line: My father, barely Last Line: Of a sister of charity, oh, my father! LÍNEAS First Line: Cada cinta de Last Line: Un pie banado Subject(s): Amor; Corazones LA ARAÑA First Line: Es una arana Last Line: Y me ha dado Subject(s): AraÑas LA CENA MISERABLE First Line: Hasta cuando estaremos Last Line: Ese oscuro hasta Subject(s): Alimento Y El Comer; Cenas Y El Cenar; Hambre LA COLÉRA QUE QUIEBRA AL HOMBRE EN NIÑOS' Last Line: Tiene un fuego Subject(s): Comportamiento Humano LA COLERA QUE QUIEBRA AL HOMBRE EN NINOS First Line: The anger against adults that breaks out in children Last Line: Contains a core of flame within two craters LA COPA NEGRA First Line: La noche es Last Line: Y piafan en Subject(s): Amor; Corazones; Odio; Pena LA DE A MIL First Line: El suertero que Last Line: La voluntad de Subject(s): Humanidad; Pobreza LA VOZ DE ESPEJO First Line: Asi pasa la vida Last Line: Que arrojan al Subject(s): Vida LAS PIEDRAS First Line: Esta manana baje Last Line: De las piedras Subject(s): Amor; Humanidad LAST WORDS First Line: I was born on a day Last Line: God was sick, %grave LEAVES OF EBONY First Line: My cigarette glows Last Line: In their frozen ponchos and without their hats LEAVES OF EBONY First Line: My cigarette glows Last Line: With ponchos of ice and no hat Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Old Age LINES Poem Text First Line: Each ribbon of fire LINES First Line: Each fiery ribbon Last Line: And, riding on an intangible curve, %a foot bathed in purple LINES First Line: Each ribbon of fire Last Line: A foot bathed in purple Subject(s): Hearts; Love LITTLE PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO Poem Text First Line: A book lay beside his dead belt Subject(s): Heroism; Death; Revolutions LITTLE RESPONSORY FOR A REPUBLICAN HERO First Line: A book lay beside his dead belt Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LIVES OF THE SAINTS First Line: Old osiris! I reached as far as the wall Last Line: Was enough to convince me, nothing, nothing Subject(s): Forgiveness; Saints LLUVIA First Line: En lima Last Line: Donde me Subject(s): Amor - Quejas; GriterÍo; Pena LODS DADOS ETERNOS First Line: Dios mio, estoy Last Line: En el hueco Subject(s): Dios; Muerte; ReligiÓn LOS ANILLOS FATIGADOS First Line: Hay ganas de volver Last Line: Hay ganas de quedarse Subject(s): Vida LOS ARRIEROS First Line: Arriero, vas Last Line: Occidentales de Subject(s): El Viajar Y Viajes; Romance LOS HERALDOS NEGROS First Line: Hay golpes en Last Line: Hay golpes en Subject(s): Destino; Hambre; Muerte; Pobreza LOS PASOS LEJANOS First Line: Mi padre duerme Last Line: Por ellos va Subject(s): Amor; Ausencia; Padres LOVE First Line: Love, you come no more to my dead eyes Last Line: Who loves and engenders without sensual pleasure! LOVE First Line: Love, you come no longer to my dead eyes Last Line: And engenders without sensual pleasure! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love LXXVII First Line: So mucyh hail that I remember Last Line: Sing on, rain, on this coast still with no sea MAN GOES BY WITH A LOAF ON HIS SHOULDER Last Line: How can I talk about the not-I without screaming? MAN WALKS BY WITH A LOAF OF BREAD ON HIS SHOULDER Last Line: How speak of the not-I without crying out? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Psychoanalysis MASA First Line: Al fin de la Last Line: Abrazo al primer Subject(s): Guerra; Muerte; Sepulcros MASS First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: And started to walk away MASS First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; started to walk Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Heroism; Toledo, Spain MASSES Poem Text First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; and began to walk Subject(s): War MASSES First Line: When the battle was over Last Line: Put his arms around the first man; started to walks Subject(s): War MASSES First Line: At the end of the battle MASSES First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; and began to walk Subject(s): Brotherhood; Courage; Hearts; Soldiers; War MAY First Line: Household smoke pours out its savor of left-overs Last Line: The blue thread of broken lives! MAY First Line: Domestic smoke pours a taste of gleanings Last Line: The blue thread of broken breaths! Subject(s): Incas; Labor And Laborers; Prayer; Shepherds And Shepherdesses MAYO First Line: Vierte el humo Last Line: El hilo azul Subject(s): Incas; Pastores; Trabajo Y Trabajadores MEDIALUZ First Line: He sonado una Last Line: Y a lo largo Subject(s): Madres; SueÑos MI HERMANO MIGUEL First Line: Hermano, hoy estoy Last Line: En salir, bueno? Subject(s): Amor; Ausencia; Casero; Hermanos MIDLIGHT Poem Text First Line: I've dreamt an elopement. And I've dreamt Subject(s): Dreams; Elopements; Mothers; Nightmares MIDLIGHT First Line: I've dreamt an elopement. And I've dreamt Last Line: And along the length of a collar that chokes! Subject(s): Dreams; Elopements; Mothers MINERS First Line: The miners went forth from the mine MISERABLE SUPPER First Line: How long will we have to wait for all that Last Line: And that dark, strange man %knows even less how long this supper will last! MISERABLE SUPPER First Line: How long will we wait for what Last Line: Has even less idea how long this supper will last! Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Hunger MULE DRIVERS First Line: Mule driver, you go fabulously glazed in sweat Last Line: Its brute toward the andes, %the occidentals of eternity Subject(s): Romance; Travel MULE DRIVERS First Line: Mule driver, you walk along fantastically glazed with sweat Last Line: Its brute toward the western %andes of eternity MULE DRIVERS First Line: Mule driver, you go fabulously glazed in sweat Last Line: Its brute towards the western %andes of eternity NAKED IN CLAY First Line: Like horrible amphibians come up for air Last Line: The tomb is yet %a woman's sex that attracts man! NARROW THEATER BOX First Line: Move closer, closer. I'm just fine Last Line: I must not be so fine; %advance, advance the cue! NARROW THEATER BOX First Line: Closer, come closer. I feel great Last Line: I must not be well; %advance, advance the cue! Subject(s): Audiences; Theater And Theaters NERVAZÓN DE ANGUSTIA First Line: Dulce hebrea Last Line: Un dionisiaco Subject(s): Alma; Muerte NERVOUS FIT OF ANGUISH Poem Text First Line: Sweet hebrew, unfasten my transit of clay Subject(s): Death; Heresy; Soul; Dead, The; Heretics NERVOUS FIT OF ANGUISH First Line: Sweet hebrew, unfasten my transit of clay Last Line: A dionysiac surfeit of coffee! Subject(s): Death; Heresy; Soul NINE MONSTERS First Line: And, unfortunately NOCHEBUENA First Line: Al callar la Last Line: Que ha nacido Subject(s): Amor; Navidad; Noche NOSTALGIAS IMPERIALES: 1 First Line: En los paisajes Last Line: Como si se exhumara Subject(s): El Viajar Y Viajes; Naturaleza; NostÁlgico NOSTALGIAS IMPERIALES: 2 First Line: La anciana pensativa Last Line: Donde naufrago llora Subject(s): NostÁlgico; Vejez NOSTALGIAS IMPERIALES: 4 First Line: La grama mustia Last Line: Como un huaco Subject(s): Cansado; PoesÍa Y Poetas NUDE IN CLAY Poem Text First Line: Like horrible amphibians into the atmosphere Subject(s): Courtship; Likes And Dislikes; Love NUDE IN CLAY First Line: Like horrible amphibians into the atmosphere Last Line: The sex of a woman that attracts man! Subject(s): Courtship; Likes And Dislikes; Love O SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME First Line: Children of the world, %if spain falls,-I say, to you I say Last Line: Leave, children of the world. Go and find her! ORACIÓN DEL CAMINO First Line: Ni se para Last Line: De la alondra Subject(s): Corazones; El Viajar Y Viajes; Pena ORATION OF THE ROAD First Line: I don't even know who this bitterness is for! Last Line: The gold-bearing song %of the lark that rots in my heart! OSTRICH Poem Text First Line: Melancholia, pull out your sweet beak now OSTRICH First Line: Melancholy, pull out your gentle beak now Last Line: And reveal your lip of woman...! OSTRICH First Line: Melancholia, pull out your sweet beak now Last Line: And bare your woman's lip! Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Hearts; Melancholy; Ostriches; Pain OTRO POCO DE CALMA, CAMARADA First Line: Another little time of calm, comrade Last Line: When, in spite of my protests, I remain forever at your beck and call OUR BREAD Poem Text First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty; Clemency OUR BREAD First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart Subject(s): Food And Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty OUR DAILY BREAD Poem Text First Line: Breakfast is drunk down...Damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart...! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty OUR DAILY BREAD First Line: You drink your breakfast...The damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart...! OUR DAILY BREAD First Line: Breakfast is drunk ... Moist earth OUR DAILY BREAD First Line: Breakfast is drunk down...Damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart...! Subject(s): Bread; Food And Eating; Hunger; Poverty PAGAN WOMAN Poem Text First Line: To go dying and singing. And to baptize the shadow PAGAN WOMAN First Line: To go along dying and singing. And to baptize the darkness Last Line: Leaving thousands of eyes of blood on the knife point PAGAN WOMAN First Line: To go along dying and singing. And to baptize the shadows Last Line: Leaving thousands of drops of blood on the dagger PAGAN WOMAN First Line: To go dying and singing. And to baptize the shadow Last Line: Leaving thousands of eyes of blood on the dagger Subject(s): Catholics; Judith (bible); Women In The Bible PAGANA First Line: Ir muriendo Last Line: Dejando miles Subject(s): CatÓlicos; Judit (biblia) PAR EL ALMA IMPOSIBLE DE MI AMADA First Line: Amada: no has Last Line: Como un pecador Subject(s): Amor; Corazones PARIS, OCTOBER, 1936 Poem Text First Line: From all of this I am the only one who leaves. Subject(s): Paris, France PEACE, THE WASP, THE BUNG, THE HILLSIDES PEDRO ROJAS First Line: He used to write in the air with his forefinger Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PEQUEÑO RESPONSO A UN HÉROE DE LA REPÚBLICA First Line: Un libro quedo Last Line: Retono, del cadaver Subject(s): Guerra; Muerte; Rezo PIEDRA NEGRA SOBRE UNA PIEDRA BLANCA First Line: Me morire en Last Line: Las soledad Subject(s): Muerte; PoesÍa Y Poetas PIENSO EN TU SEXO' Last Line: Odumodneurtse! Subject(s): Conciencia PILGRIMAGE First Line: We go along together. The dream Last Line: We walk past the mustard lilacs %of a cemetery PILGRIMAGE First Line: Together we pass by. Sleep Last Line: Together, we pass by the purple %mustards of a cemetery Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Travel PILGRIMAGE First Line: We walk together. Sleep Last Line: Together we walk by the mustard lilacs %of a cemetery POEM TO BE READ AND SUNG First Line: I know there is someone Last Line: But she does look and look for me. This is a real story POEM TO READ AND SUNG Poem Text First Line: I know there is a person Subject(s): Poetry Readings POEM TO READ AND SUNG First Line: I know there is a person Last Line: But she looks and looks for me. What a story! Subject(s): Poetry Readings POEMA PARA SER LEÍDO Y CANTADO First Line: Se que hay Last Line: Pero me busca Subject(s): PoesÍa Y Poetas POET TO HIS BELOVED First Line: Beloved, tonight you have sacrificed yourself Last Line: The two of us will sleep. As little brother and sister POET TO HIS BELOVED First Line: Beloved, tonight you've been crucified Last Line: Both of us will sleep, as little brother and sister Subject(s): Death; Poetry And Poets PRAYER OF THE ROAD First Line: I don't even know whom this bitterness is for! Last Line: That rots in my heart! Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Travel QUISIERA HOY SER FELIZ DE BUENA GANA First Line: Today I want to be wholeheartedly happy Last Line: Naturally, without a wire, is my hope RAIN Poem Text First Line: In lima...In lima it's raining Subject(s): Rain RAIN First Line: In lima...In lima it is raining Last Line: On the coffin of my path, %where I long for you RAIN First Line: In lima...In lima it's raining Last Line: Where I gnaw my bones for you Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints RETABLO First Line: I say to myself: at last, I escape the noise Last Line: From far away, cry to us about the monotonous suicide of god! Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts RETABLO First Line: Yo digo para Last Line: Nos lloran el Subject(s): Amor; Dios RIGHT MEANING First Line: Mother, you know there is a place somewhere called Last Line: Eating her lunch, and her eyes that will die descend gently %along my arms Subject(s): Men; Mothers ROLLCALL OF BONES First Line: They demanded in loud voices Last Line: And that simply couldn't be done ROMERIA First Line: Pasamos juntos Last Line: Mostazas de un Subject(s): Cementerios; El Viajar Y Viajes; Muerte ROSA BLANCA First Line: Me siento bien Last Line: Un naufrago Subject(s): Muerte; Naufragios RUSTIC First Line: A distant vibration of dejected cowbells Last Line: A tragic blue of dead idylls weeps! Subject(s): Death; Loss; Prayer SACRED DEFOLIATION Poem Text First Line: Moon! Crown of an immense head Subject(s): Hearts; Moon SACRED DEFOLIATION First Line: Moon! Crown of an immense head Last Line: That wanders the blue while crying verses! Subject(s): Hearts; Moon SACRED FALLING OF LEAVES First Line: Moon! Crown of an immense head Last Line: That wanders in the blue, wailing poems! SANTORAL First Line: Viejo osiris! Llegue Last Line: Alcanzo a requerirme Subject(s): PerdÓn; Santos SAUCE First Line: Lirismo de invierno Last Line: Cavaran los perros Subject(s): AdiÓs; Muerte SECOND OF NOVEMBER TOLLS SEPTEMBER First Line: That september night, you were Last Line: The pools of this night in december SEPTEMBER First Line: You were so good to me, that night Last Line: The pools of this night in december Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints SETIEMBRE First Line: Aquella noche Last Line: Los charcos de Subject(s): Amor - Quejas; Pena SHORT PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO Poem Text First Line: A book remained at the edge of his dead waist Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Prayer; Toledo, Spain; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines SHORT PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO First Line: A book remained at the edge of his dead waist Last Line: Abruptly sprouted from the corpse Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Prayer; Toledo, Spain; War SOLIA ESCRIBIR CON SU DEDO GRANDE EN AL AIRE First Line: With his index finger he used to write in the air Last Line: His dead body contains all the world SOUL THAT SUFFERED FROM BEING ITS BODY First Line: You suffer from an endocrine gland, that's obvious Last Line: It's worse; don't deny it, little brother SPAIN, TAKE FROM ME THIS CUP First Line: Children of the world SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME Poem Text First Line: Children of the world Last Line: Go forth, children of the world; go seek her! Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; Spain SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME First Line: Children of the world Last Line: Go out, children of the world, go and look for her! Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; Spain SPIDER First Line: It's an enormous spider that no longer goes Last Line: And I feel so bad for that traveler! SPIDER First Line: This enormous spider isn't moving any more Last Line: And the gloomy thoughts this traveler has brought me Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER First Line: It is a huge spider that cannot crawl farther Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER First Line: It is an enormous spider that no longer moves SPIDER First Line: It is a huge spider, which can no longer move Last Line: And what a strange pain that traveler has given me Subject(s): Animals; Men SPIDER First Line: It's an enormous spider that no longer moves Last Line: And today when worry that traveler brought me! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worry STONES First Line: This morning I went down Last Line: Of the stones, %of the stones STONES First Line: This morning, I went Last Line: Of the stones Subject(s): Humanity; Love STUMBLING BETWEEN THE STARS First Line: There are people so unhappy Last Line: Alas for so much! Alas for so little! Alas for them! SUMMER First Line: Summer, I'm leaving now. And the delicate Last Line: A rose dies that blossoms again and again SUMMER First Line: Summer, now I'm going away. The meek Last Line: One rose that is born again so many times Subject(s): Death; Farewell SURRENDER First Line: Last night, some april seeds surrendered Last Line: At night two serpent slaves enter my life TELLURIC AND MAGNETIC First Line: Sincere and most peruvian mechanics Last Line: As for the others, they can jerk me off TENGO FE EN SER FUERTE First Line: As for me, I believe in being strong Last Line: Behold! All hail the fine big shot! TENNIS-PLAYER, IN THE INSTANT HE MAJESTICALLY Last Line: Oh soul! Oh thinking! Oh marx! Oh feuerbach TERCERO AUTÓCTONO: 3 First Line: Madrugada. La chicha Last Line: Sus pantorillas de Subject(s): Bebidas Y El Beber TERCETO AUTÓCTONO: 1 First Line: El puno labrador Last Line: El moderno dios Subject(s): Bebidas Y El Beber; MÚsica Y MÚsicos TERCETO AUTÓCTONO: 2 First Line: Echa una cana Last Line: Siembra en los Subject(s): Campos; Pastores THE ANGER THAT BREAKS THE MAN INTO CHILDREN Poem Text Last Line: Owns one deep fire against two craters Subject(s): Anger THE BLACK CUP Poem Text First Line: The night's a cup of evil. The shrill whistle Last Line: And my thirst paws in my flesh Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Night THE BLACK HERALDS Poem Text First Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Last Line: There are blows in life, so powerful…I don't know! Subject(s): Life; Religion THE BLACK MESSENGERS Poem Text First Line: There are in life such hard blows . . . I don't know! Subject(s): Life; Religion THE BLACK RIDERS Poem Text First Line: There are blows in life so violent -- I can't answer Subject(s): Men THE DISTANT FOOTSTEPS Poem Text First Line: My father is sleeping. His noble face Subject(s): Fathers THE HUNGRY MAN'S WHEEL Poem Text First Line: From between my own teeth I come out smoking Variant Title(s): The Starving Man's Rack Subject(s): Poverty THE MISERABLE SUPPER Poem Text First Line: How long will we wait for what THE POET TO HIS BELOVED Poem Text First Line: Beloved, tonight you've been crucified Last Line: And there’s a good friday sweeter than that kiss Subject(s): Passion; Christianity THE RIGHT MEANING Poem Text First Line: Mother, you know there is a place somewhere called Subject(s): Men; Mothers THE SPIDER Poem Text First Line: It is a huge spider, which can no longer move Subject(s): Spiders THE STONES Poem Text First Line: This morning, I went Last Line: Of the stones Subject(s): Stones THREE HUNDRED WOMANLY STATES OF THE EIFFEL TOWER Last Line: My sexual oscillation is frozen TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL First Line: Brother, today I sit on the brick bench outside the house Last Line: Coming out. All right? Mama might worry TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL First Line: Brother, today I'm sitting on the bench outside our house Last Line: Coming out. Okay? Mama might get worried TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL First Line: Brother, today I'm on the stone bench outside our house Last Line: In coming out. Okay? It could upset mama Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Home; Love TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL First Line: Brother, today I sit on the brick bench outside the house Last Line: Coming out. All right? Mama might worry Subject(s): Brothers; Memory; Shadows; Soul TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL IN MEMORIAM Poem Text First Line: Brother, today I sit on the brick bench 0f the house Subject(s): Brothers; Death TODAY I LIKE LIFE MUCH LESS Poem Text Last Line: And always, much always, always, always! Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Life TODAY I LIKE LIFE MUCH LESS Last Line: And always, much always, always always! Subject(s): Old Age TRILCE: 1 Poem Text First Line: Who's making all that racket, not even leaving testation to the islands beginning to appear Subject(s): Islands; Nature TRILCE: 1 First Line: Who's making such a ruckus, and won't even let Last Line: And the peninsula upends, %pivots back, muzzled, intrepid %on the mortal edge of equilibrium TRILCE: 1 First Line: Who's making all that racket, and not even leaving Last Line: From behind, muzziled, unterrified %on the fatal balance line TRILCE: 10 First Line: Pristine and ultimate stone of groundless Last Line: The patient sits up %and seated preens tranquil pomades TRILCE: 10 First Line: The pristine and last stone of groundless Last Line: The patient raises up, %and seated enpeacocks tranquil nosegays TRILCE: 11 First Line: I met a young girl Last Line: To play bulls, yoked oxen, %but make-believe, all innocent, the way it was TRILCE: 11 First Line: I have met a girl %in the street, and she has embraced me Last Line: To play bulls, yoked oxen, %but just fooling , in candor, like it was TRILCE: 12 First Line: I escape from a feint, fluf for fluf Last Line: And five on the other: ssh! Here it comes TRILCE: 13 First Line: I'm thinking of your sex Last Line: Honey-sweet scandalous dusks! %mute thunder! %rednuhtetum! TRILCE: 13 First Line: I think about your sex Last Line: Oh mute thunder. %rednuhtetum! TRILCE: 14 First Line: As for my explanation. %this lacerates me with earliness Last Line: But I earn a wage of five soles TRILCE: 15 First Line: In that corner, where we slept together Last Line: Two doors coming and going in the wind %dusk to dusk TRILCE: 15 First Line: In that corner, where we slept together Last Line: Two doors that come and go in the wind %shadow to shadow TRILCE: 16 First Line: I have faith in being strong Last Line: Hey! A good start! TRILCE: 17 First Line: This 2 distills in a single batch, %and together we'll finish it off Last Line: On your 21 fingernailed season. %good! Good! TRILCE: 18 Poem Text First Line: Oh, the four walls of the cell! Last Line: Must look for man’s powerless superiority Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners TRILCE: 18 First Line: Oh the four walls of the cell Last Line: To pupilize, between my where and my when, %this invalid majority of a man TRILCE: 19 First Line: To descant, sweet helpide, you babble Last Line: The cock has become uncertain, man TRILCE: 2 Poem Text First Line: Time time Subject(s): Time TRILCE: 2 First Line: Time time. %noon dammed up in night damp Last Line: It's called thesame that suffers %name name name name TRILCE: 2, TIME TIME First Line: Noon trapped between two dews Last Line: It's called the same as what it suffers %name name name TRILCE: 20 First Line: Flush with bubbling milk scum buttressed Last Line: But just a bit, %no mor- %e TRILCE: 21 First Line: In an auto arteried with vicious circles Last Line: For her he has put on all his differences TRILCE: 22 First Line: Possibly up to four magistrates Last Line: I'm edgewise still. Here I am! TRILCE: 23 First Line: Estuous oven of those my sweet rolls Last Line: From anyone; when you gave it to us, %no, mama? TRILCE: 24 First Line: By the edge of a flowered tomb Last Line: Two marys go off singing. %monday TRILCE: 25 First Line: Thrips uprear to adhere Last Line: Even in trap doors and in rough drafts TRILCE: 26 First Line: Summer knots three years %that, beribboned with carmine ribbons, at full Last Line: Facing moribund alexandria, %cuzco moribund TRILCE: 27 First Line: That spurt frightens me, %good memory, powerful master, implacable Last Line: Blond and sad skeleton, whistle, whistle TRILCE: 28 First Line: I've had lunch alone now, and without any Last Line: The kitchen in darkness, the misery of love TRILCE: 29 First Line: Bottled tedium buzzes %under the moment unproduced and cane Last Line: Armor-plate this equator, moon TRILCE: 3 Poem Text First Line: The grownups Subject(s): Children; Childhood TRILCE: 3 First Line: The grownups Last Line: Don't have left me alone, %no one but me locked up here all alone Subject(s): Children TRILCE: 3 First Line: The grown-ups %-when are they coming back? Last Line: They can't have left me all alone, %the only prisoner can't be me TRILCE: 30 First Line: Burn of the second %throughout the tender fleshbud of desire Last Line: Between our poor day and the great night, %at two in the immoral afternoon TRILCE: 31 First Line: Hope wails cotton coddled Last Line: Lord, I want it... %and that's enough! TRILCE: 32 First Line: 999 calories. %roombbb .... Hullabll llust ... Ster Last Line: Thirty-three trillion three hundred and thirty-three %calories TRILCE: 33 First Line: If it should rain tonight, I'd withdraw Last Line: But that which came and already left TRILCE: 34 First Line: That's it for the stranger, with whom, late Last Line: And our having been born thus for no reason TRILCE: 35 First Line: An hour with the beloved %so much once, is a single detail Last Line: That's fallen off again. Why fancy that! TRILCE: 36 First Line: We struggle to thread ourselves through a needle's eye Last Line: Make way for the new odd number %potent with orphanhood! TRILCE: 37 First Line: I used to know a poor girl Last Line: My business failed as did hers %and the sphere swept away TRILCE: 38 First Line: This crystal waits to be sipped Last Line: And now goes off to form lefts, %the new minuses. %just leave it alone TRILCE: 39 First Line: Who's lit a match! Last Line: Health goes on one foot. Forward: march! TRILCE: 4 First Line: Two carts grind against the hammers %until trifurca lachrymals Last Line: All has been cried out. Has been completely veiled %in deep left TRILCE: 40 First Line: Who would have told us that on a sunday Last Line: For today when we test if we even live, %almost a front at the most TRILCE: 41 First Line: Death kneeling spills %its white blood that's not blood Last Line: Slap %for %swap TRILCE: 42 First Line: Wait, all of you. Now I'm going to tell you Last Line: Acrisia. Tilia, go to bed TRILCE: 43 First Line: Who knows leaves for you. Don't hide him Last Line: Your're doing this because I beg you to. %do it! TRILCE: 44 First Line: This piano travels within, %travels by joyful leaps Last Line: Oh mysterious pulse TRILCE: 45 First Line: I am freed from the burdens of the sea Last Line: That is not really a wing since it is only one TRILCE: 45 First Line: I lose contact with the sea %when the waters come to me Last Line: That by dint of being one no longer is a wing TRILCE: 46 First Line: The evening a cook lingers %before the table where you ate Last Line: Ah! How can we help ourselves to anything TRILCE: 47 First Line: Ciliate reef where I was born Last Line: It being already 1 o'clock TRILCE: 48 First Line: I now have 70 peruvian soles Last Line: It ends up being all numbers, %the whole of life TRILCE: 49 First Line: Murmured in anxiety, my suit Last Line: Right down to the bone! TRILCE: 5 First Line: Dicotyledonous group. From it Last Line: Until it wakes the I and makes it stand. %ah bicardiac group TRILCE: 50 First Line: Cerberus four times % a day wields his padlock, opening Last Line: But, naturally, %always doing his duty TRILCE: 51 First Line: A lie. I was just pretending Last Line: Next time I won't even watch you when you play TRILCE: 52 First Line: And we'll get up when we feel Last Line: Through the dentilabial %v that holds vigil in him TRILCE: 53 First Line: Who cries out eleven o'clock is not twelve! Last Line: How much is oiled in elbows %that reach to the mouth! TRILCE: 54 First Line: Outcast torment, enter, leave Last Line: I'll fling into your eyes, outcast! TRILCE: 55 First Line: Samain would day the air is calm and of a contained %sadness Last Line: On the bed that's been unoccupied for so long %over there %in front TRILCE: 56 Poem Text First Line: Every day I blindly get up at dawn Last Line: Tear after tear in a cloud of dust Subject(s): Grief TRILCE: 56 First Line: Everyday I wake blindly %to work so as to live; and I eat breakfast Last Line: Match after match in the blackness, %tear after tear in clouds of dust TRILCE: 57 First Line: The highest points craterized, the points Last Line: And this and that TRILCE: 58 First Line: In the cell, in what's solid, the %corners are huddling too Last Line: Who's stumbling outside? TRILCE: 59 First Line: The terrestrial sphere of love Last Line: Harden, until I clench my soul! TRILCE: 6 First Line: The suit I wore tomorrow Last Line: Bleach and iron all the chaoses TRILCE: 60 First Line: Of wood is my patience Last Line: And the pleasure that banishes us TRILCE: 61 First Line: Descending from my horse tonight Last Line: It's all right, everything is quite all right TRILCE: 62 First Line: Carpet %whenever you go to the room that you know Last Line: And thus they will hurt you less TRILCE: 63 First Line: Day breaks raining. Combed through Last Line: And it is only an ill-timed twelve TRILCE: 64 First Line: Wandering landmarks enamor, since the mountainous Last Line: Today tomorrow yesterday (no way!) TRILCE: 65 First Line: Mother, tomorrow I'm going to santiago Last Line: So it is, immortal dead one. %so it is TRILCE: 66 First Line: The second of november tolls Last Line: Is bitten by a wagon that simply %rolls through the street TRILCE: 67 First Line: Summer sings close by, and both Last Line: Only from mirror to mirror TRILCE: 68 First Line: It is the fourteenth of july Last Line: A %t %f %u %l %m %a %s %t TRILCE: 69 First Line: How you search for us, oh sea, with your educational Last Line: In its single leaf the recto %facing the verso TRILCE: 7 First Line: I headed as usual down the veined street Last Line: Burnt-out powder, the upstairs price 1921 TRILCE: 70 First Line: Everyone smiles at the nonchalance with which I sink to Last Line: If we bang into the pendulum, or have already crossed it TRILCE: 71 First Line: The sun coils in your fresh hand Last Line: From the general store on any corner TRILCE: 72 First Line: Slow conical salon, they closed you, I closed you Last Line: Sweetness for the whole shroud, even too much TRILCE: 73 First Line: Another ay has triumphed. The truth is there Last Line: Absurdity, only facing you does this ex- %cess sweat golden pleasure TRILCE: 74 First Line: One day last year was so rich! Last Line: So that you'll compose yourself TRILCE: 75 Poem Text First Line: You're all dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TRILCE: 75 First Line: You're all dead Last Line: They have not yet lived. They always died of life. %you're all dead Subject(s): Death TRILCE: 76 First Line: All night long I keep sticking %out my tongue at the most mute xes Last Line: That do not reach each other ever! TRILCE: 77 First Line: It hails so much, as if to make me recall Last Line: Sing, rain, on the coast still without a sea! TRILCE: 8 First Line: Tomorrow that other day, some Last Line: And I'm left with the front toward my back TRILCE: 9 First Line: One good turn deservvves another Last Line: And female is the soul of the absent one. %and female my own soul TRILCE: 9 First Line: I sdrive to dddeflect at a blow the blow Last Line: And female is the soul of the absent-she. %and female is my own soul TWILIGHT First Line: I have dreamed of flight. And I have dreamed Last Line: The length of a wharf...%the length of a drowning throat TWILIGHT First Line: I have dreamed a flight. And I have dreamed Last Line: And along a throat that is drowning! UN HOMBRE ESTA MIRANDO A UNA MUJER First Line: A man is looking at a woman Last Line: And then I call out to them UN HOMBRE PASA CON UN PAN AL HOMBRO First Line: A man passes by with a loaf of bread on his shoulder Last Line: How can I think of the not-me without crying aloud? UN HOMBRE PASA CON UN PAN AL HOMBRO' Last Line: Como hablar del Subject(s): Pobreza; PoesÍa Y Poetas UNDER THE POPLARS Poem Text First Line: Like priestly imprisoned poets UNDER THE POPLARS First Line: Like imprisoned priestly poets Last Line: A dog traces its pastoral howl UNDER THE POPLARS First Line: Like priestly imprisoned poets Last Line: A dog etches its pastoral howl Subject(s): Shepherds And Shepherdesses UNIDAD First Line: En esta noche Last Line: Un plomo en Subject(s): Amor - PÉrdida De; Corazones; Muerte UNITY Poem Text First Line: Tonight, my clock pants UNITY First Line: Tonight my clock gasps for breath Last Line: A bullet in the blue shape of a heart UNITY First Line: Tonight, my clock pants Last Line: A bullet in the blue shape of a heart Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of UNSEASONABLE TIME First Line: Beloved purity, that my eyes never Last Line: So little was born, but much is dying! UNTIMELY TIME First Line: Beloved purity, which my eyes Last Line: Little was born, but so much is dying! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory VERANO First Line: Verano, ya me Last Line: Muere una rosa Subject(s): AdiÓs; Muerte VILLAGE SCENE First Line: The distant sound of melancholy cowbells Last Line: A tragic blue of dead idylls weeps! VOICE IN THE MIRROR First Line: So life goes, like a strange mirage Last Line: Hurling its funeral march into the void VOICE OF THE MIRROR Poem Text First Line: So life passes, like an odd mirage Subject(s): Life VOICE OF THE MIRROR First Line: So life passes, like an odd mirage Last Line: That vomits its funeral march into the void Subject(s): Life VOY A HABLAR DE LA ESPERANZA' First Line: Yo no sufro Last Line: Hoy sufro suceda Subject(s): Esperanza; Hambre; PoesÍa Y Poetas WEAR CIRCLES First Line: There are desires to return, to love, not to go away Last Line: There are desires not to move an inch from this poem WEARY CIRCLES First Line: There is a desire to return, to love, not to go away Last Line: There is a desire to stay right here in this poem! WEARY CIRCLES First Line: There's the desire to return, to love, to not be absent Last Line: There's the desire to remain rooted in this verse! Subject(s): Life WEARY RINGS Poem Text First Line: There's the desire to return, to love, to not be absent WEDDING MARCH First Line: Conducting my own public appearance Last Line: And the stalk will finally become a fuse WHEEL OF THE HUNGRY First Line: I emerge from between my teeth, sniffing WHITE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I feel great. Now WHITE ROSE First Line: I feel fine. A stoic Last Line: And out on my pacific %a shipwrecked coffin mews WHITE ROSE First Line: I feel great. Now Last Line: A shipwrecked coffin mews Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks WILLOW Poem Text First Line: Winter lyricism, crepe rumor WILLOW First Line: Lyricism of winter, murmur of crapes Last Line: The dogs will dig, howling, a goodbye! WILLOW First Line: Winter lyricism, crepe rumor Last Line: The dogs will dig up, howling, a goodbye! Subject(s): Death; Farewell WILLOWS First Line: The lyric song of winter, the sound of mourning Last Line: The dogs will paw the earth, howling good-byes WIN A THOUSAND First Line: The lottery ticket vendor who shouts, 'win a thousand!' Last Line: Why ever would god's will dress up %like a lottery ticket vendor! WIN A THOUSAND First Line: The seller of lottery tickets who cries, 'win a thousand' Last Line: As a seller of lottery tickets! Subject(s): Humanity; Poverty XV First Line: In that corner, where we slept together Last Line: Two doors in the wind, back, and forth, %shadow -- to -- shadow XXXIV First Line: Finished the stranger, with whom, late Last Line: And our having been born like this for no cause YESO First Line: Silencio. Aqui se Last Line: Como en una Subject(s): Amor; Memoria; PasiÓn |
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