Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War: With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notesHughes, T. M. (Terence McMahon)
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Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War: With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes
Hughes, T. M. (Terence McMahon)
Peninsular War, 1807-1814 -- Poetry
Vide Claudian. _Nupt. Honor. et Mariæ._ Claudian makes one of the
fountains of honey.
“And nerves that with the keenest rapture tingle
Shall haply curse the hour when ceased they to be single!”
Molestæ hæ sunt nuptiæ!
Terent. _Andr._ act ii. sc. 2.
VI. “Not fairer opened in Alcina’s isle.”
Vide Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, canto vi.
“Where side by side the fruit and blossoms grow.”
Vide Tasso, _Gerusalemme_, canto xvi.
XX. “But brighter flashed, that thus they came to save
In peril’s hour, the eyes of Isabel.”
Wer rettete vom tode mich,
Von sklaverey?
Hast du nicht alles selbst vollendet,
Heilig glühend herz?
Goethe (Prometheus).
“Who rescued me from death, from slavery? Hast thou not all
achieved, holily glowing heart?”
XXII. “In memory of their Armadilla’s pride.”
_Armada_ “a fleet,” _Armadilla_ “a little fleet.”
XXIV. “Hast seen her? Hast thou seen my daughter? Say,
Know’st thou aught of my girl?”
Er rief in das geheul des windes,
Lenorens namen hundertmal;
Doch statt des heissgeliebten kindes,
Antwortet ihm der wiederhall.
Langbein.
“He cried out, ’mid the howling of the winds, Leonora’s name a
hundred times; but echo answered him instead of his best-beloved
child.”
XXX. “_Parad!_ a voice exclaimed like music dropt.”
_Parad_, “stop!”
XXXII. “Oh, rapturous embrace, oh tenfold joy,
All sweeter for the racking grief sustained!”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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