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En las orillas del Sar

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A compact poetic collection of intimate, elegiac lyrics that blend personal sorrow, maternal tenderness, and longing for homeland. The poems juxtapose pastoral and riverine imagery with urban melancholy, giving voice to social hardships, memory, and spiritual resignation. Language relies on folk cadences and musical rhythms while experimenting with concise, fervent stanzaic forms, producing a tone both plaintive and dignified. Occasional prefatory material frames the poet’s life and reception, but the core remains concentrated on mortality, solitude, cultural belonging, and the expressive duties of poetry.

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«Yo en mi lecho de abrojos,

Tú en tu lecho de rosas y de plumas,

Verdad dijo el que dijo que un abismo

Media entre mi miseria y tu fortuna.

Mas yo no cambiaría

Por tu lecho mi lecho,

Pues rosas hay que manchan y emponzoñan,

Y abrojos que á través de su aspereza

Nos conducen al cielo.»