Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Spanish Edition)

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• Title Page
  
• Note to Reader
  

• Foreword
  
• Antonio Machado: A Reminiscence
  
• Introduction
  
• Note on the Poems
  

S
OLITUDES
, G
ALLERIES AND
O
THER
P
OEMS
(1899–1907)

1. The Voyager
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. “I have walked many roads”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. “The plaza and the burning orange trees”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. On the Burial of a Friend
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. Childhood Memory
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. “It was a bright afternoon”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
7. “The languid lemon tree”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
8. Shores of the Duero
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
9. “A labyrinth of narrow streets”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
10. “I go dreaming along roads”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
11. Cante hondo
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
12. “The street in shadow”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
13. “You slip away”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
14. Horizon
    (
    Spanish
    )
    

1. “The clock was striking twelve”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. “Over the bitter land”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. “The sun is a globe of fire”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. “O figures in the courtyard”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. “A few canvases of memory”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. “Moss is growing in the shadowy plaza”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
7. “The fire coals of a violet twilight”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
8. “My love? Tell me, do you remember”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
9. “One day we sat down by the road”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
10. “A young face one day appears”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    

1. “The corroded and greenish hull”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. “The dream below the sun”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   

1. The Waterwheel
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. The Gallows
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. Flies
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. Elegy for a Madrigal
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. Garden
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. Bad Dreams
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
7. Tedium
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
8. “The clock was clanging one”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
9. Advice
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
10. Gloss
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
11. “Last night while I was sleeping”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
12. “Has my heart gone to sleep?”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    

1. “The torn cloud, the rainbow”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. “And he was the demon of my dream”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. “From the doorsill of a dream”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. “Those children in a row”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. “Stained by earlier days”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. “The house I loved”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
7. “Before the pale canvas of the afternoon”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
8. “Tranquil afternoon, almost”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
9. “Like Anakreon”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
10. “O luminous afternoon!”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
11. “It is an ashen and shabby evening”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
12. “Will the spellbound world die with you”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
13. “Naked is the earth”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
14. Field
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
15. To an Old and Distinguished Gentleman
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
16. “Yesterday my sorrows”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
17. “Perhaps the hand in dreaming”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
18. “You will know yourself”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
19. “Below the laurel tree”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    

1. “Over coarse stone in the middle of the square”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. Winter Sun
   (
   Spanish
   )
   

F
IELDS OF
C
ASTILLA
(1907–1917)

1. Portrait
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. On the Banks of the Duero
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. In Spanish Lands
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. “The poorhouse”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. “Guadarrama, is it you, old friend?”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. “The thousand waters of April”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
7. A Madman
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
8. Autumn Dawning
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
9. The Train
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
10. Summer Night
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
11. Fields of Soria
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
12. The Land of Alvargonzález
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
13. To a Dry Elm
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
14. Roads
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
15. “Lord, now what I loved most you tore from me”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
16. “Hope says”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
17. “There in the highlands”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
18. “I dreamt you were guiding me”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
19. “One summer night”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
20. “As snow was melting”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
21. “Here in the fields of my homeland”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
22. To José María Palacio
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
23. Another Trip
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
24. Poem About a Day
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
25. November 1913
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
26. Out of the Ephemeral Past
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
27. Lament for His Virtues and Verses on the Death of Don Guido
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
28. Proverbs and Songs
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
29. Parables
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
30. My Clown
    (
    Spanish
    )
    

1. To Don Francisco Giner de los Ríos
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. A Young Spain
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. My Poets
   (
   Spanish
   )
   

N
EW
S
ONGS
(1917-1930)

1. Notes
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. Toward the Lowlands
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. Galleries
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. Highland Songs
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. Songs
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. Songs of the Upper Duero
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
7. Proverbs and Songs
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
8. Parergon
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
9. Glossing Ronsard and Other Rhymes
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
10. Sonnets
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
11. Old Songs
    (
    Spanish
    )
    

1. My eyes in the mirror
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. Primaveral
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. Rose of Fire
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. From
   Advices, Verses, Notes
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. “In dreams he saw himself”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. “Let us be confident”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
7. To the Great Zero
   (
   Spanish
   )
   

1. Abel Martín’s Last Lamentations
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. Siesta
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. In the Manner of Juan de Mairena
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. Songs to Guiomar
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. Other Songs to Guiomar
   (
   Spanish
   )
   

1. Notes and Songs
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. Sierra Note
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. Notes, Parables, Proverbs and Songs
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. Three Songs Sent to Unamuno in 1913
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. Dawn Songs
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. Autumn
   (
   Spanish
   )
   

1. Twelve Poets Who Might Have Existed
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. Goodbye
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. Sonnet
   (
   Spanish
   )
   

P
OEMS OF THE
W
AR
(1936-1939)

1. Spring
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
2. The Poet Recalls the Lands of Soria
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
3. Dawning in Valencia
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
4. The Death of the Wounded Child
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
5. “From sea to sea between us is the war”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
6. “Again our yesterday”
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
7. Song
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
8. The Crime Was in Granada
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
9. Today’s Meditation
   (
   Spanish
   )
   
10. “I will give you my song”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
11. Songs
    (
    Spanish
    )
    
12. “These blue days”
    (
    Spanish
    )
    

• Note on the Book
  
• About the Author
  
• Chronology of Antonio Machado
  
• About the Translator
  
• Index of Spanish Titles
  
• Index of English Titles
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Copyright
  
• Special Thanks