Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez

CONTENTS EDITOR'S PREFACE, xiii TRANSLATOR'S NOTE, xxxv 1 1900-1915/Early, Traditional and Modernistic Poems NOCTURNE "The garden is deserted.", 3 AUTUMN ARIA, 5 NOCTURNE "The moon pours a stream of glitter", 6 GALANTE GARDEN: I, 7 GALANTE GARDEN: II, 8 SORROWFUL GARDEN, 9 PASTORALE "Here comes the wagon now", 10 PASTORALE "Pomegranates in the blue sky", 11 "The afternoon roads", 12 (THE POET HAS DIED IN THE COUNTRY), 13 "Among clouds the moon is", 14 PASTORALE "For heaven's sake be silent", 15 ROOM, 16 MORNING OF THE CROSS, 17 THE DISTANT SEA, 18 WALKING, 19 GREEN GREENFINCH, 20 ELEGY OF PURITY, 21 ELEGIAC LAMENT: I, 22 ELEGIAC LAMENT: II, 22 DEEP AND SLEEPING WATER, 23 "Ah how softly the brook", 24 NUDES (ADIEU. ABSENCE. RETURN.), 25 YELLOW SPRING, 26 FRANCINA IN THE GARDEN, 26 DREAM SEASCAPE, 27 PERFUME AND NOSTALGIA, 28 FIFTH CHORD, 29 NUDES, 29 IDYL, 31 THE WHEAT-EAR, 31 THE CONCLUSIVE VOYAGE, 32 NEW LEAVES, 33 PORTRAIT OF AN UNSEASONABLE TIME, 33 ODOR OF JASMINE, 34 TENEBRAE, 35 DROWNED, 36 THE DEAD GIRL, 36 SKY BEHIND THE BLUE SKY, 37 "Sunday afternoons in winter", 38 WINTER SONG, 39 ASH OF ROSES, 39 "Who knows what is on the opposite side of each hour", 40 LOVE, 41 LIGHTNESS, 42 WAKEFULNESS, 43 HUGE HOUR, 44 NOTHING, 45 DISGUST, 45 BRIEF RETURN, 46 OCTOBER, 47 TO MY SOUL, 48 "Everywhere arrows of gold", 48 GOLD, 49 CONVALESCENCE, 50 2 1907-1916/Selections from the book of prose poems, "PLATERO AND I" 1. PLATERO, 53 2. SPRING, 54 3. THE FLOWER BY THE ROAD, 55 4. THE THORN, 55 5. THE THREE KINGS, 56 6. SCARLET LANDSCAPE, 57 7. THE LITTLE GIRL, 58 8. CHILL, 59 9. ANGELUS, 60 10. THE PARSLEY CROWN, 61 11. DEATH, 62 12. NOSTALGIA, 62 13. MELANCHOLY, 63 3 1916-1925/A new approach to poetry and prose "How close to the soul is all that . . .", 67 "You are all in yourself, sea, and yet . . .", 68 NOCTURNE (February 3), 69 SEA, 70 SKY (February 7), 70 IDEAL ARRIVAL (February 11), 71 "I plucked off your petals as if you were a rose." (February 20), 73 THE COLONIAL HOUSE (March 26), 73 THE NEGRESS AND THE ROSE (April 5), 74 CEMETERY ON BROADWAY (April 10), 75 THE MOON (April 23), 76 LONG LIVE SPRING, 77 NOCTURNE (For Antonio Machado), 78 CEMETERIES (May 19), 79 EVENING, 80 INTELLIGENCE, 81 POETRY, 82 "To the bridge of love", 83 "Sleep is like a bridge", 83 "How strange", 84 "I recognized you because when I saw the print", 84 "Don't run, go slowly", 85 "Every poplar, as you pass it", 85 DEAD, 86 (To Miss Rápida), 86 "I am not I", 86 "I am like a distracted child", 87 THE POEM, 87 TO BELOVED OLD AGE, 88 SEAS, 89 NOCTURNE OF DREAMS, 89 IDEAL EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR, 90 SONG, 90 "Yes—says day—no—", 91 ROUND THE TIP, 91 UNVEILING, 92 LIGHT AND WATER, 93 "Leave the doors open", 93 DAWNS OF MOGUER, 94 MY VOICE, 95 THIS IS MY LIFE, 95 DEATH, 96 THE WATCHER, 96 THE ONLY FRIEND, 97 SOUTH, 98 THE LITTLE GREEN BIRD, 98 "They shall not stare at me saying", 99 THE WATER IN THE WATER, 99 THE LIE, 100 WHITE ELM TREE, 101 I SHOULD LIKE TO SLEEP DURING THIS NIGHT, 102 ZENITH, 103 4 1925-1936/From the years of maturity in rhythm and thought GENERALIFE, 107 MADRID WIND, 111 DEPARTURE, 111 THE SOLITARY POPLAR, 113 FINAL AUTUMN, 114 SEA, NOTHING, 114 NEW SPRING, 116 WESTERN MOON, 116 SEPULCHRAL NIGHT, 117 MY GREEN GARDEN, 118 MOIST MINE, 119 PRELUDE TO AUTUMN, 120 BIRD OF THE WATER, 120 THE ROSEMARY FLOWER, 122 THE MOON IN THE PINETREE, 123 THE ROCKROSE, 125 THE WILD BIRD, 126 SWEET MARJORAM OF THE MOUNTAIN, 127 BLACK HAIR, 128 MOGUER NOCTURNE, 130 ATMOSPHERE, 130 THE LITTLE GREEN GIRL, 132 THE FIRST, 132 THE ETERNAL DAMSEL, 133 THE ONE BEING, 134 ULTIMATE ROSE, 135 THE GARDENER OF SEVILLE, 136 LISTENING TO THE WATER, 137 NIGHT VISIT TO "THE HILL", 139 THE BLIND MEN OF MADRID, 140 CITY OF THE SKY, 141 RETURNING FLOWER, 142 FLOWERS BENEATH THE LIGHTNING, 144 I SHALL BE REBORN, 145 THE COMING STAR, 146 WITH THE ROSES, 146 FORTUNATE CREATURES, 147 5 1940/Portraits of writers and artists GUSTAVO ADOLFO BÉCQUER, 151 ROSALÍA DE CASTRO, 153 JOSÉ MARTÍ, 154 RUBÉN DARÍO, 158 FRANCISCO GINER, 161 JOSÉ ASUNCIÓN SILVA, 162 ENRIQUE GRANADOS, 164 MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO, 166 JOSÉ ENRIQUE RODÓ, 167 MANUEL DE FALLA, 169 ANTONIO MACHADO, 171 TERESA DE LA PARRA, 172 6 1941/Ideas on society and poetry ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY, 177 POETRY AND LITERATURE, 198 7 1936-1956/From the latest books written in America OFFENDED DOVE, 205 THE BIRDS FROM I KNOW WHERE, 206 SECOND FRAGMENT, 208 THE BEST NIGHT, 210 TREES MEN, 211 THE MOST FAITHFUL, 212 HEROIC REASON, 214 WITH YOUR LIGHT, 236 ITS CORONET OF GLORY, 237 FROM LOWER TAKHOMA, 238 WITH HER AND WITH THE CARDINAL, 240 IN MY THIRD SEA, 241 WITHOUT TEDIUM OR REST, 243 WITH THE SOUTHERN CROSS, 244 IN THE BEST THAT I HAVE, 245 WITH HALF OF ME YONDER, 246 LOOKING AT HER HANDS, 247 THE COLOR OF YOUR SOUL, 248 TO BURN COMPLETELY, 249 8 Thirty selections from the many aphorisms written throughout Jiménez's life