Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Guadiana, the River | | The Guadiana | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | (From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage)
BUT ere the mingling bounds have far been passed, | |
| Dark Guadiana rolls his power along | |
| In sullen billows, murmuring and vast, | |
| So noted ancient roundelays among. | |
| Whilome upon his banks did legions throng | 5 |
| Of Moor and Knight, in mailed splendor drest; | |
| Here ceased the swift their race, here sunk the strong; | |
| The Paynim turban and the Christian crest | |
| Mixed on the bleeding stream, by floating hosts oppressed. | | | | |
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