Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Excerpt from Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer To Manual De Santa Maria. The soft strings of a Spanish lute one day You struck, and plaintive notes gushed forth like tears. Ravished I listened, and I longed to play The music to another people's ears. You showed me all the cunning workmanship, The stretching of the strings, the exquisite Adjustment of the frets, the body's dip; I took the lute and tried to copy it. Well, here it is, re-fashioned and re-strung. Play on it; ah, I fear those sweet, sad airs Sound cracked and harsh now, better left unsung. Well, fling the lute aside and take Becquer's! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.