Soneto CLXVI ("Mientras por competir con tu cabello") by Luis de Góngora
Soneto CLXVI ("Mientras por competir con tu cabello") by Luis de Góngora

Soneto CLXVI (”Mientras por competir con tu cabello”)

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Soneto CLXVI ("Mientras por competir con tu cabello") by Luis de Góngora

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Góngora was a late 16th early 17th century Spanish Baroque poet; His florid style later influenced the Spanish modernist poets like Lorca, and in particular, the Generation of ‘27 group.

In addition to poetry, Góngora did well enough for himself to have a portrait painted by Velasquez, no small bo...

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Soneto CLXVI (”Mientras por competir con tu cabello”) Annotated

Mientras por competir con tu cabello
Oro bruñido al sol relumbra en vano,
Mientras con menosprecio en medio el llano
Mira tu blanca frente al lilio bello;

Mientras a cada labio, por cogello,
Siguen más ojos que al clavel temprano,
Y mientras triunfa con desdén lozano
Del luciente cristal tu gentil cuello,

Goza cuello, cabello, labio y frente,
Antes que lo que fue en tu edad dorada
Oro, lilio, clavel, cristal luciente,

No sólo en plata o vïola troncada
Se vuelva, más tú y ello juntamente
En tierra, en humo, en polvo, en sombra, en nada.

Trans.

While trying with your tresses to compete
in vain the sun’s rays shine on burnished gold;
while with abundant scorn across the plain
does your white brow the lily’s hue behold;

while to each of your lips, to catch and keep,
are drawn more eyes than to carnations bright;
and while with graceful scorn your lovely throat
transparently still bests all crystal’s light,

take your delight in throat, locks, lips, and brow,
before what in your golden years was gold,
carnation, lily, crystal luminous,

not just to silver or limp violets
will turn, but you and all of it as well
to earth, decay, dust, gloom, and nothingness.

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