Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Portugal | | Portugal | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | (From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage)
ON, on the vessel flies, the land is gone, | |
| And winds are rude in Biscay’s sleepless bay. | |
| Four days are sped, but with the fifth, anon, | |
| New shores descried make every bosom gay; | |
| And Cintra’s mountain greets them on their way, | 5 |
| And Tagus dashing onward to the deep, | |
| His fabled golden tribute bent to pay; | |
| And soon on board the Lusian pilots leap, | |
| And steer ’twixt fertile shores where yet few rustics reap. | | | | |
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