Five in the Afternoon

By Lorca, Garcia

Description
Classic Literature

Excerpt
Excerpt: Singing Cafe. (From Flamenco Vignettes) Lamps of crystal and green mirrors. On the dark stage Parrala holds a dialogue with death. Calls her, she won?t come, Calls her again. The people swallow their sobbing. And in the green mirrors long trails of silk move.

Table of Contents
Contents Singing CafŠ ....................................................................5 The Guitar .......................................................................6 Journey ............................................................................8 Lola..................................................................................9 Malague¤a .....................................................................10 Sonnet............................................................................11 Serenata .........................................................................12 Preciosa and the Breeze.................................................13 The Quarrel....................................................................16 The Gypsy Nun .............................................................18 Ballad of the Black Sorrow ...........................................20 Saint Gabriel..................................................................23 Saint Michael.................................................................26 Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard .................................29 Thamar and Amnon.......................................................35 Sound of the Cuban Negroes .........................................39 Madrigal for the City of Santiago..................................41 Nocturne of the Drowned Youth ...................................42 Dance of the Santiago Moon .........................................44 Lament for Ignacio S nchez Mej¡as ..............................47 Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint .....................................59 Wounds of Love ............................................................60 The Beloved Sleeps on the Breast of the Poet ...............61 Two Laws ......................................................................62 Sonnet............................................................................63 Night-Song of the Andalusian Sailors ...........................64