Florbela Espanca

Portugal
8 Dec 1894 // 8 Dec 1930
Poet

Poems



To Love! (1)

I want to love, to love madly!/ Loving just for loving: Here... beyond.../ More This and That one, the Other and everyone .../ To Love! To Love! And not loving anyone!/ / To Remember? To Forget? Indi...

Missing You (2)

Missing you! Yes... maybe... and why not?.../ If the dream was so high and strong/ That I thought to see it till death/ Dazzling my heart with light!/ / Forget! What for?... Ah, how vain it is!/ That...

If You Came To See Me (3)

If you came to see me today in the early evening,/ At this hour of magic weariness,/ When the gentle night is approaching,/ And be all arrested in your arms.../ / When it reminds me: this flavor that...


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