Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Cordova | | Cordova | | Conde de Villamediana (1580–1622) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
A GRAND town-square, close streets, or rather straits; | |
| A rich old bishop, traders poor as rats; | |
| Fair horses, ambling slow, with such soft paces, | |
| As well might teach the women better graces; | |
| Women, whose gait and pace so strong and coarse is, | 5 |
| You ’d think they practised steps with stalking horses; | |
| Rude shapeless houses, men like cornstalks tall, | |
| Cobblers’ and stitchers’ work on every stall; | |
| Stummed wine to drink, lean bread to feed upon; | |
| A crowd of fools,—wise Góngora all alone,— | 10 |
| I found at Cordova;—if bad ’s the best, | |
| Let him who finds aught better paint the rest. | | | | |
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