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Andalusia awoke beside beso bird BLESSED GUARDIAN cried crown DARK DAYS dear DEATHLESS SONG DIVINATION door DREAM e'en earth endures ENVY EYES OF PEPITA FACE TO FACE FAREWELL FIRE AND SMOKE FLEETING LOVE flowers Folk Songs FRIENDSHIP FRUITLESS TREE gard'ner girl grave HEART OF GOLD HEAVEN OF LOVE HENE'ER IDLE THOUGHTS IMPORTUNITY INSCRIPTION INSENSIBILITY ITHIN JEALOUSY La Noche-buena se laughter lips live LOVE AND ABSENCE LOVE'S HISTORY LOVE'S HUSBANDRY loveliness LOVER'S ADVICE LOVER'S LIE MAN'S PITY mano MARAQUITA'S KISS moonlight mouth ne'er Neath never night Noche-buena OULD'ST passer POOR AND RICH READING THE HEART ROAD OF POVERTY sage sands scent of orange-blossoms SECRET VOICE SERENADE SEVILLA sighs silence singing soul Southern Spain Spain SPENDTHRIFT stars STREET OF BITTERNESS sun comes sweet Sweetheart tears thee UNATTAINABLE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNRETURNING unto VICTOR waxen WISDOM'S IGNORANCE wise WITHI WORDS OF FOOLS WOULD'ST wounds
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Page vii - La Nochebuena se viene, la Nochebuena se va, y nosotros nos iremos y no volveremos más.
Page 21 - ... woman in a thousand. Why . . . her own husband dare hardly open his mouth to her. And if she catches him idling she gives him the stick. Yes, she does. DONA CLARINES. Quite right, too ! ESCOPETA returns from his errand. The same shambling walk ; but he is humming another ditty. ESCOPETA. Maraquita, a kiss from your lips ; For I go to confession ere noon, And if priest, peradventure . . . DONA CLARINES.
Page 26 - OHE owns a heart of gold, The girl I love so true : Around her neck it hangs Upon a ribbon blue.
Page 48 - ... love, but glancing at the common experiences of life. A people which has produced such a wealth of proverbs can hardly refrain from packing a great deal of o'isdom into its improvised song. Two selections will show the quality of 'these verses : A QUESTION A child her mother questioned once I...