| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 146. The Daughter of Mendoza |
| | | By Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar |
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| O LEND to me, sweet nightingale, | |
| Your music by the fountain, | |
| And lend to me your cadences, | |
| O river of the mountain! | |
| That I may sing my gay brunette, | 5 |
| A diamond spark in coral set, | |
| Gem for a prince’s coronet— | |
| The daughter of Mendoza. | |
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| How brilliant is the morning star, | |
| The evening star how tender,— | 10 |
| The light of both is in her eyes, | |
| Their softness and their splendor. | |
| But for the lash that shades their light | |
| They were too dazzling for the sight, | |
| And when she shuts them, all is night— | 15 |
| The daughter of Mendoza. | |
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| O ever bright and beauteous one, | |
| Bewildering and beguiling, | |
| The lute is in thy silvery tones, | |
| The rainbow in thy smiling; | 20 |
| And thine is, too, o’er hill and dell, | |
| The bounding of the young gazelle, | |
| The arrow’s flight and ocean’s swell— | |
| Sweet daughter of Mendoza! | |
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| What though, perchance, we no more meet,— | 25 |
| What though too soon we sever? | |
| Thy form will float like emerald light | |
| Before my vision ever. | |
| For who can see and then forget | |
| The glories of my gay brunette— | 30 |
| Thou art too bright a star to set, | |
| Sweet daughter of Mendoza! | |
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