In the canon
Rima LIII (Volverán las oscuras golondrinas)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1871
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 1
The swallows come back every spring to build their nests on your balcony, and the honeysuckle climbs the garden wall once more, and someday other burning words will sound in your ear. Everything returns, and that is both the cruelty at the centre of this poem and its unbearable tenderness.
The dark swallows will return to hang their nests upon your balcony
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