Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Portugal: Lisbon (Lisboa) | | The Bridge of Alcantara | | William Julius Mickle (1734–1788) |
| | | OFT as at pensive eve I pass the brook | |
| Where Lisboa’s Maro, old and suppliant stood, | |
| Fancy his injured eld and sorrows rude | |
| Brought to my view. ’T was night; with cheerless look | |
| Methought he bowed the head in languid mood, | 5 |
| As pale with penury in darkling nook | |
| Forlorn he watched. Sudden the skies partook | |
| A mantling blaze, and warlike forms intrude. | |
| Here Gama’s semblance braves the boiling main, | |
| And Lusitania’s warriors hurl the spear; | 10 |
| But whence that flood of light that bids them rear | |
| Their lofty brows! From thy neglected strain, | |
| Camoens, unseen by vulgar eye it flows, | |
| That glorious blaze to thee thy thankless country owes. | | | | |
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