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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Nervo [1]

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Date: 2023-10-06

To Leonora

by Amado Nervo

translated from the Spanish by Alice Blackwell

Black as the wing of Mystery thine hair,

Dark as a “Never” where deep sorrow lies,

As a farewell, or as the words “Who knows?”

Yet is there something darker still—thine eyes!

Two musing wizards are those eyes of thine;

Sphinxes asleep in shadow in the South;

Two beautiful enigmas, wondrous fair;

Yet is there something fairer still—thy mouth!

Thy mouth! Ah, yes! Thy mouth, divinely formed

For love’s expression and to be love’s goal,

Shaped for love’s warm communion—thy young mouth!

Yet is there something better still—thy soul.

Thy soul, retiring, silent, brimming o’er

With pity and with tenderness, I deem

Deep as the ocean, the unsounded sea;

Yet is there something deeper still—thy dream!

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on September 17, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.

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