Coplas De Manrique (From The Spanish) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
O let the soul her slumbers break,Let thought be quickened, and awake;Awake to seeHow soon this life is past and ...
O let the soul her slumbers break,Let thought be quickened, and awake;Awake to seeHow soon this life is past and ...
Time with his pointed shafts has hitMy heart and split my gut, laid open my entrails,landed me a blow that ...
Before Granada's fated walls the Christian legions stand,A numerous and a valiant—but why a sullen band?The politic, wise Ferdinand's injunctions they ...
Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise;I tell of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in ...
Below, the tawny Tagus sweptPast royal gardens, breathing balm;Upon his couch the monarch slept;The world was still; the night was ...
O Sadducees and Pharisees, Who harass the divine,Now harken with reluctancy How Daphne made the wine!(I drain a glass of bootleg Scotch, For ...
"Men may weill wyt, thouch nane thaim tell,How angry for sorow, and how fell,Is to tyne sic a Lord as ...
From a rude isle, his ruder lineage came.The spark, that, from a suburb hovel's hearthAscending, wraps some capital in flame,Hath ...
I.Land of unconquered Pelayo! land of the Cid Campeador!Sea-girdled mother of men! Spain, name of glory and power;Cradle of world-grasping ...
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
'TWAS the Pentecost time of tournamentAt the court of high Castile,And the first, among the Spanish knights,Was the prince of ...
Part FirstYou'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff, The name of that highly deluded old fluff Who chartered a ...
THE pilot's at the helm,Yon vessel's course to mark;Yet shall destruction soon o'erwhelmThe unsuspecting bark.Triumphant now she ridesUpon the treach'rous ...
"WITHIN my heart I long have kept A little chamber cleanly swept, Embroidered with a fleur-de-lis, And lintel boughs of ...
Alas, now! If I were only able To hear a bit of news of how that manIs doing, who makes ...
(Written on the exhumation and reburial in Spain of the bones ofChristopher Columbus.) Once more upon the ocean's heaving ...
"SUCCESS to the heroes of gallant Castile, Undaunted in danger, victorious in fight! May they teach proud oppressors and tyrants ...
Orange blossoms blowing over Castile children begging for coins I met my love under an orange tree or was it ...
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
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