"Volverán las oscuras golondrinas", famous poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Hi there! After a long time, I would like to share with you a beautiful poem by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. We could say this is the most well-known one that he wrote.

It is called "Volverán las oscuras golondrinas" and it is a perfect example of the Romanticism period. The person in love remembers with desperation his/her lost love, and contemplates that everything else will live again (golondrinas (bird), madreselvas (plant), words...) expect for that lost love, plus the fact that will not be able to meet again. The only thought that consoles and energizes that person is that nobody else will be able to love somebody else like how he fortunately did.

You can read the poem below:

Volverán las oscuras golondrinas

En tu balcón los nidos a colgar,

Y otra vez con el ala en los cristales

Jugando llamarán.

Pero aquellas que el vuelo refrenaba

Tu hermosura y mi dicha al contemplar,

Aquellas que aprendieron nuestros nombres…

¡Esas…no volverán!

Volverán las tupidas madreselvas

De tu jardín las tapias a escalar,

Y otra vez a la tarde aún más hermosas

Sus flores abrirán

Pero aquellas, cuajadas de rocío

Cuyas gotas mirábamos temblar

Y caer como lágrimas del día….

¡esas…. no volverán!

Volverán del amor en tus oídos

Las palabras ardientes a sonar, tu corazón de tu profundo sueño

Tal vez despertará.

Pero mudo y absorto y de rodillas

Como se adora a Dios ante su altar,

Como yo te he querido…., desengáñate….

¡así... no te querrán!

And if you want to listen to it, please check the video here :)

Thank you for reading and hasta pronto!

El Mío Cid

¡Hola! :) Taking advantage from the last post, I would like to share with you this video of the beginning of the Cantar del Mío Cid.
El Mío Cid was a legendary man that conquers a lot of territories to the arabic people that were in Spain centuries ago, when the Spanish Kingdom was still being developed and was trying to conquer all the Iberian Peninsula.
The amazing thing in this video is the fact that the boy who recorded it tried to speak in old castilian spanish, and it's amazing to hear it because it has changed a lot :D
Enjoy it! :)

¡Que vaya bien!
Everything goes well with you!

Don Quijote de la Mancha

Don Quijote (Don Quixote) is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It's full title is 'El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha' (The ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha).

When the Spanish teenagers go to the high-school, they have to read part or all this book in their Spanish classes. It's an important book of the Spanish culture and literature. Anyway, its way of writting is actually old, only used centuries ago, but in spite of that I was impressed by that book.

It's also a beautiful Spanish, and I thing that is good to feel respect and admiration for all that changes that languages make during their lifes.
I have also read some thing about the Old English and its way of being written in the past, and I was impressed by that too :) Really curious!

¡Hasta más ver, osado caballero! :)
Till the next time, brave knight!