For a glance, a world;
for a smile, a heaven;
for a kiss…I do not know
what I would give you for a kiss.
***
Por una mirada, un mundo;
por una sonrisa, un cielo;
por un beso… ¡Yo no sé
qué te diera por un beso!
***
The original Spanish is from Gustavo Adolpho Bécquer. As always, any errors in the English translation are entirely my own.
Karin S. Wiberg 
Very nicely done
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Thanks, Susan!
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One of my favourites from Bécquer!
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Me, too. I wish my Spanish were better so I could read with more facility.
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Oh, you’d love it. My mother tongue is Spanish and I grew up reading Bécquer!.
It screwed me up for life, though. I am an incurable romantic!
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Yah, a couple years of beginning Spanish only gets me so far. 🙂 And there’s nothing wrong with being romantic!
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I know! 😉
And by the way, I think your translation does the rhyme justice 🙂
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