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Gacela of Unforeseen Love

No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your womb.
Nobody knew that you tormented
a hummingbird of love between your teeth.

A thousand Persian little horses fell asleep
in the plaza with moon of your forehead,
while through four nights I embraced
your waist, enemy of the snow.

Between plaster and jasmins, your glance
was a pale branch of seeds.
I sought in my heart to give you
the ivory letters that say "siempre",

"siempre", "siempre" : garden of my agony,
your body elusive always,
that blood of your veins in my mouth,
your mouth already lightless for my death.

Federico García Lorca













Gacela del Amor Imprevisto

Nadie comprendia el perfume
de la oscura magnolia de tu vientre.
Nadie sabia que martirizabas
un colibri de amor entre los dientes.

Mil caballitos persas se dormian
en la plaza con luna de tu frente,
mientras que yo enlazaba cuatro noches
tu cintura, enemiga de la nieve.

Entre yeso y jazmines, tu mirada
era un palido ramo de simientes.
Yo busque, para darte, por mi pecho
las letras de marfil que dicen siempre,

siempre, siempre, jardin de mi agonia,
tu cuerpo fugitivo para siempre,
la sangre de tus venas en mi boca,
tu boca ya sin luz para mi muerte.

Federico Garcia Lorca

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Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was killed by fascists at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Lorca is one of the most important of the 20th century's most brilliant and innovative poets.His poems paint a vivid and intrinsically poetic portrait of Andalucia and his hometown Granada, with its stark landscapes of olive groves and fig trees, its moonlit nights among whitewashed walls and Moorish towers, its bullfighters and, above all, its gypsies with their free-roaming ways and fierce codes of living and loving.

The brutal murder of Lorca in the early days of the Spanish Civil War has made his name a legend, for he was killed for apparently no other reason than that he was a great popular poet. He had no party affiliations. "I am," he would say, "an anarchist, Communist, libertarian, Catholic, traditionalist and monarchist." He was a poet, an individualist, and the first in wartime to be suspect, isolated and martyred.


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Author of books:
Impresiones y Paisajes (1918)
Libro de Poemas (1921, poetry)
Canciones (1926, poetry)
Romancero Gitano (1928, poetry)
Poema del Cante Jondo (1931, poetry)
Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (1935, poetry)
Seis Poemas Galegos (1935, poetry)
Poeta en Nueva York (1940, poetry)
Divan del Tamarit (1940, poetry)
Suites (1983, poetry)
Sonetos del Amor Oscuro (1984, poetry)

Wrote plays:
El Maleficio de la Mariposa (1920)
Mariana Pineda (1927)
La Zapatera Prodigiosa (1930)
Así que Pasen Cinco Años (1931)
El Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su Jardín (1933)
Bodas de Sangre (1933)
Yerma (1934)
Doña Rosita la Soltera (1935)
La Casa de Bernarda Alba (1936)