Lines by Rubén Darío
Rubén Darío
Nicaraguan poet · 1867–1916
Rubén Darío led modernismo, the movement that renewed poetry in Spanish at the end of the nineteenth century. Cantos de vida y esperanza, from 1905, is his most admired book.
Youth, divine treasure, you are leaving, never to return!
Juventud, divino tesoro, / ¡ya te vas para no volver!
Canción de otoño en primavera, in Cantos de vida y esperanza, lines 1–2
Planet-X translation, 2026 · Source (opens the digitised edition in a new tab)