JOSE HIERRO
6. "Para un esteta"
5. acaso perhaps
6. ronda hangs about
7. hermanadas bound together
8. socavando undermining
9. talla chisels
9. dispone prepares
14. brota springs up
15. no sacias you don't slake, satisfy
18. nombras you name, you give a name to
19. Mi Obra My Work
21. diques dikes
23. comulgar con commune with
24. alzar raise up
24. vallas fences, barriers
25. te pertenece belongs to you
25. afluente flowing
25. arroyo stream
26. cauce bed (of river)
26. desembocan empty into, flow into
27. hechos (made), turned into
27. os verteis you pour into
30. hacer mole hacer moler: make it grind
30. muela millstone
8. "Canto a Espana"
3. clavel carnation
4. quebrarse break (be broken up)
5. descalzos sin zapatos
6. latido pulse
7. se llevan are carried off
7. murallas ramparts (walls surrounding cities)
8. nieblas mists
8. circundando de encircling with
8, cintura waist
9. errantes wandering
9. pudren pudrir: to rot
11. talar cut down
11. ceniza ash
11. resecas parched (re- = muy)
12. hazanas deeds
13. erguirme erguirse (levantarse)
14. peso weight
16. asistir a attend, be present at
18. hachazo axe blow
18. hiende hender: to split, cleave
18. troncos tree trunks
18. llaga wound
21. alamo poplar
22. dorar (still controlled by "Los veo")
dorar: to gild, make golden
22. abrasa abrasar: to burn
22. corteza crust, skin, exterior
24. visten de duelo they are dressed in mourning
24. a cuestas on their backs
24. acabamiento end, finish, ruin
25. impasibles impassively
28. te hundias hundirse: to sink
28. navio maldito accursed or evil ship
29. borrada tu estela with your wake line erased
34. cofre chest (donde guardar cosas)
11. "Requiem"
1. natural native
2. ha fallecido fallecer: morir
5. tendido laid out
12. cirios candles
15. camarote cabin
19. termino end
20. grua crane (construction)
21, esquela funeral notice
25. se aroma is perfumed
25. romero rosemary (plentiful in Spanish
countryside)
26. tallado tallar: to chisel, sculpt
27. empapado de soaked in
33. marmol marble (slab)
34. pastan graze
36. caja box
37. huele a smells like
37. abetos firs
40 arrancaron a yanked out of
44 pagaron G o M G or M paid for
45. cumbres heights
46. garras de aguila eagle claws
51. fecundaron fertilized, made fertile
52. empapaban de they soaked it in
54. se mutilaba was mutilated
55. velaban velar: to watch over (as in a wake)
59. borrado effaced
60. papagayo parrot
64. hace mucho tiempo que has been dying for a long time
65 de anonimo anonymously
65. (de) cordura (from) sanity: Con cordura =
sensibly, prudently.
66. locuras desgarradoras heartrending madnesses
67. acuchilla slashes (with knife)
68. pellejos de vino wineskins (vessels made of goat skins)
68. derrama spills
91. Sin vuelo without any flight (high-sounding
language)
95. a punto de about to