Rubén Darío - Nocturne (1905) lyrics

I want to erase my anguish in verse
That will describe my youth of reveries
Roses stripped to make my bitter life worse
After all the vast pain and small worries

And the journey East on that ship of fools
Prayer-seeds that blossomed into blasphemy
The irritating swan among the pools
Fake blue nights, bohemian revelry

Clavichord that played the void in silence
You stole from me that sonata's delight
Orphaned boat, well-known, and hidden nest
That pacified the sweet and silver night

The hope that is scented
With these fresh herbs
The nightingale's song at dawn in the spring
The fate of the lily to be severed
Cursed by the vice
Gleaning for what joy will bring

Death's amphora of sanctified poison
Will transform life into inner torture
We fear the clay that makes us so human
Our fleeting being and there's the horror

Of groping in dark fear that comes and goes
Cruel nightmares of this sleeping
Pierced by screams
Lost in the foreordained that no one knows
For only She will wake us from these dreams