Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Barcelona | | Barcelona | | George Croly (1780–1860) |
| | (From Sebastian)
PROUD Barcelona, on the sunny shore | |
| That lines with silver Spain’s resplendent sea, | |
| What can for sport or splendor vie with thee? | |
| But now, thy day of war and terror o’er, | |
| Like sudden madness burst thy grateful glee. | 5 |
| Thy morning streets were filled with pageantry; | |
| At eve thy Rambla rang with dance and song; | |
| Night, midnight, found the still unwearied throng | |
| Wandering by seashore or illumined shade, | |
| Busy with masque and feast and serenade. | 10 | | | |
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