Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Sorgues, the River | | Laura de Sade | | Jacopo Sannazzaro (1458–1530) |
| | Translated by Capel Lofft
THE NYMPH by Sorga’s humble murmurings born, | |
| Illustrious now on wings of glory soars; | |
| Her high renown its awful echo pours | |
| Wide o’er the earth. Splendors like these adorn | |
| Her, destined, in her modest beauty’s morn, | 5 |
| To charm the eye of Petrarch. Her the doors | |
| Of fame’s proud dome enshrine; the radiant stores | |
| Of fancy blaze around her; nor does scorn | |
| On her low birthplace and obscurer tomb | |
| Glance a triumphant scowl. What suns illume | 10 |
| With lustre like the Muse? How many dames, | |
| Wise, chaste, and lovely, of distinguished race, | |
| Have slept in death forgotten, lost their names, | |
| While hers from age to age beams with still heightened grace. | | | | |
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