My Retreat (Jose Rizal Poems)
Beside a spacious beach of fine and delicate sandand at the foot of a mountain greener than a leaf,I planted ...
Beside a spacious beach of fine and delicate sandand at the foot of a mountain greener than a leaf,I planted ...
Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed,Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost,With gladness I give you ...
Land I adore, farewell! thou land of the southern sun's choosing!Pearl of the Orient seas! our forfeited Garden of Eden!Joyous I yield ...
Wise education, vital breathInspires an enchanting virtue;She puts the Country in the lofty seatOf endless glory, of dazzling glow,And just ...
IThey bid me strike the lyreso long now mute and broken,but not a note can I wakennor will my muse ...
Go to my country, go, O foreign flowers,sown by the traveler along the road,and under that blue heaventhat watches over ...
Chorus:For the Motherland in war,For the Motherland in peace,Will the Filipino keep watch,He will live until life will cease!MEN:Now the ...
Why ask for those unintellectual versesthat once, insane with grief, I sang aghast?Or are you maybe throwing in my facemy ...
Dry leaf that flies at randomtill it's seized by a wind from above:so lives on earth the wanderer,without north, without ...
IIf Philomela with harmonious tongueTo blond Apollo, who manifests his faceBehind high hill or overhanging mountain,Canticles sends.IISo we as well, ...
Why falls so rich a sprayof fragrance from the bowersof the balmy flowersupon this festive day?Why from woods and valesdo ...
Flower among flowers,soft bud swooning,that the wind movesto a gentle crooning.Wind of heaven,wind of love,you who gladdenall you espy;you who ...
Now mute indeed are tongue and heart:love shies away, joy stands apart.Neglected by its leaders and defeated,the country was subdued ...
Sweet the hours in the native country,where friendly shines the sun above!Life is the breeze that sweeps the meadows;tranquil is ...
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