SAILBOAT ON THE SHORE by Antonio Machado
Keeping up to schedule, Poem 47 in "A Salute to Spanish Poetry: 100 Masterpieces from Spain & Latin America rendered into English verse by John Howard Reid" was written by the celebrated Spanish poet, Antonio Machado (1875-1939)…. 21 such poems are included in the Tom Howard anthology, "Escape to Paradise and Other Poetic Fancies."
Sailboat on the Shore
translated from the Spanish of Antonio Machado
Battered by waves,
overgrown by green seaweed,
the moldering hulk of an old sloop
lies half-buried in the sand…
Tattered sails, furled by the wind,
still dream of skimming across the sea,
under the April sun.
The sea bubbles and sings…
The sea is a sonorous dream.
The sea bubbles and laughs
under an azure sky.
The sea bubbles and laughs
with its azure waves
foaming of milk and silver.
The milky sea, the glistening sea,
laughing its azure laughter,
spinning its lyrics of silver.
An enchanted wind is sleeping
in the fulsome haze of a bleaching sky.
A gull hesitates in the dormant air,
and then in slow, drowsy flight, it drifts away
and loses itself in the mist of the sun.
Sailboat on the Shore
translated from the Spanish of Antonio Machado
Battered by waves,
overgrown by green seaweed,
the moldering hulk of an old sloop
lies half-buried in the sand…
Tattered sails, furled by the wind,
still dream of skimming across the sea,
under the April sun.
The sea bubbles and sings…
The sea is a sonorous dream.
The sea bubbles and laughs
under an azure sky.
The sea bubbles and laughs
with its azure waves
foaming of milk and silver.
The milky sea, the glistening sea,
laughing its azure laughter,
spinning its lyrics of silver.
An enchanted wind is sleeping
in the fulsome haze of a bleaching sky.
A gull hesitates in the dormant air,
and then in slow, drowsy flight, it drifts away
and loses itself in the mist of the sun.
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