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Te vi un punto y flotando ante mis ojos la imagen de tus ojos se quedó, como la mancha oscura orlada en fuego que flota y ciega si se mira al sol. Adondequiera que la vista fijo torno a ver sus pupilas llamear; mas no te encuentro a tí, que es tu mirada, unos ojos, los tuyos, nada más. De mi alcoba en al angulo los miro desasidos fantásticos lucir: cuando duermo los siento que se ciernen de par en par abiertos sobre mí. Yo sé que hay fuegos fatuos que en la noche llevan al caminante a perecer: yo me siento arrastrado por tus ojos, pero adónde me arrastran no lo sé.
Authorship
- by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, né Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida (1836 - 1870), appears in Rimas, no. 14 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Joaquín Turina (1882 - 1949), "Rima", op. 26 no. 3 (1923), published 1923 [ soprano and piano ], from Tres arias, no. 3, Madrid : UME [sung text checked 2 times]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Poem", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Rime", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Barbara Miller , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2004-04-18
Line count: 16
Word count: 113
I saw you, a spot, and floating before my eyes the image of your eyes remained, like the dark stain trimmed [with] fire which floats and blinds [you] if [you look] at the sun. Wherever [my] sight focuses, I turn to see your pupils blazing; but I do not find you, it is your gaze, [a pair of] eyes, your eyes, [and] nothing more. From my bedroom in the corner I watch them shine, freely, fantastically: when I sleep I feel them loom, wide-open, over me. I know that there are fatuous flames which in the night take the walker to perish: I feel myself pulled by your eyes, but I know not where they are pulling me.
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- Translation from Spanish (Español) to English copyright © 2020 by Garrett Medlock, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Spanish (Español) by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, né Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida (1836 - 1870), appears in Rimas, no. 14
This text was added to the website: 2020-06-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 118