Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Valladolid | | Bull-fight at Valladolid | | Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
THE PLACE, a garden gay,—the round stockade | |
| Festooned with flowers,—the bulls, some twelve or more, | |
| Fierce as fleshed tigers in their rush and roar, | |
| Right gallantly despatched with lance and blade: | |
| The riders on their posts in troops arrayed, | 5 |
| Princes and peers, who thronged the grassy floor; | |
| Their rival hues, such gorgeous suits they wore, | |
| Outspangled heaven’s bright rainbow ere it fade. | |
| Their steeds Valencian children of the wind, | |
| For whose rich bits Peru gave bars of gold, | 10 |
| Whose burnished reins threw back the dazzling sun: | |
| And when o’er western hills the sun declined, | |
| A game of shields Pisuerga might behold, | |
| That had old Genil’s Moorish vaunts outdone. | | | | |
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