CANTIGA
by: Gil Vicente (c. 1470
- c. 1536)
- ULL of grace exceedingly,
- As she hath charm and loveliness;
- Speak, O sailor of the sea,
- And from out thy bark, confess
- That never ship nor sail can be
- Beautiful as she.
- Speak, thou knightly man-at-arms,
- Boasting of thy panoply,--
- Are horse or sword or war-alarms
- Beautiful as she?
- Speak, thou shepherd of the hills,
- Where thine idle flocks are free,--
- Are there peaks or vales or rills
- Beautiful as she?
--Translated by Thomas Walsh
"Cantiga" is reprinted
from Hispanic Anthology: Poems Translated from the Spanish
by English and North American Poets. Ed. Thomas Walsh. New
York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. |
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