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Translated from the Spanish by Mason Carnes
From a dark corner of the mind
Past memories
Fly to beset me, like a swarm
Of angry bees.
Attacked, surrounded, ’tis in vain
I try to fling.
Them off; each thrusts into my soul
Its poisoned sting.
From Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1891) by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. Translated from the Spanish by Mason Carnes. This poem is in the public domain.
Translated from the Spanish by Mason Carnes
Balmy breezes softly sighing,
Kiss the light waves as they curl;
And the sun, albeit dying
Kisses warm yon cloud of pearl;
For a kiss the flame is trying
Round the burning log to whirl;
And the willow never misses
Translated from the Spanish by Mason Carnes
In the dark corner of the drawing-room,
Forgotten by its mistress long ago,
Silent, cover’d with dust there in the gloom
The old harp lies.
Translated from the Spanish by Mason Carnes
Ah! do not say that, all its treasure spent,
For lack of subjects mute the lyre has grown:
Perchance no poets there will be, but still
For ever poetry will live.