Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Malaga | | Malaga,—The Rest | | Martha Perry Lowe (1829–1902) |
| | | MALAGA, thou noiseless haven sweet, | |
| Offering thy blessed, kind retreat | |
| Gently to the weary, languid feet!— | |
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| How thou drawest thy blue curtain there, | |
| Shutting from the wildered eye the glare, | 5 |
| And the cold and chilling northern air! | |
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| Golden is the lamp which thou dost trim: | |
| Never for the sufferer is it dim; | |
| Shedding mellow, pensive light on him. | |
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| Beautiful, caressing, airy room! | 10 |
| Castles on thy sky for pictures loom, | |
| Cheering oft his spirit’s sickly gloom; | |
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| Stretching out, as flowing tapestry, | |
| Yonder rainbow-tinted, velvet sea, | |
| Folding round his footsteps coolingly! | 15 |
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| Hush! how still the air around his rest, | |
| Smoothing down the ripples in his breast, | |
| Where the swift disturber, Pain, hath prest! | |
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| They are waiting in thy beauteous hall, | |
| When the flowers open,—when they fall; | 20 |
| Waiting for one lovely presence, all. | |
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| And perchance she comes with dimpled cheek, | |
| Roses blushing soft when she doth speak, | |
| Bounding rapturous to the sufferer meek. | |
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| Ah! she oftener steals anear with eye | 25 |
| Pitiful; then turns her silently, | |
| Shakes her head, and says a kind good-by. | | | | |
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