Sonnet of the Garland of Roses

Sonnet of the Garland of Roses (Soneto de la guirnalda de rosas) written by Federico García Lorca, translated by Paperpencils

 
This garland! quickly! before I die!
Weave it quickly! sing! turn! sing!
how the shadow clouds my throat
and once again and a thousand times the January light.

Between your desire and my own,
an air of stars and quivering plants,
thickets of anemones arise
with a dark whimper of an entire year.

Enjoy the fresh landscape of my wound,
break the reed and delicate brooks.
Drink the pouring blood from a honeyed thigh.

But quickly! So that united, entwined,
with mouths broken by love and with bitten souls,
time may find us destroyed.

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