Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Seville | | To Seville | | Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) |
| | Translated by A. Baskerville
TO sweet Seville, to sweet Seville, | |
| Where the stately mansions raise | |
| Marble fronts in street and square, | |
| Where the rich from windows gaze, | |
| Donnas gayly decked and fair, | 5 |
| There my heart longs not to go! | |
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| To sweet Seville, to sweet Seville, | |
| Where the scattered houses end, | |
| Friendly neighbors smile and greet, | |
| Maidens from their windows bend, | 10 |
| Watering their flowers sweet, | |
| Thither longs my heart to go! | |
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| In sweet Seville, in sweet Seville, | |
| Know I too a room so neat, | |
| Chamber silent, kitchen bright, | 15 |
| In that house resides my sweet, | |
| On the door a knocker bright, | |
| When I knock the maiden opes. | |
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| To sweet Seville, to sweet Seville, | |
| To my best beloved I hie, | 20 |
| At her feet to sink in bliss, | |
| To converse with speaking eye, | |
| To caress her with a kiss, | |
| There my heart so longs to go. | | | | |
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