Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Cadiz | | Cadiz | | William Gibson (1826–1887) |
| | | FAIR Cadiz, with thy wall of whitest stone, | |
| Thy graceful mansions more than marble white, | |
| Art thou a city of alabaster bright, | |
| Hewn from one rock? From the Czarina flown | |
| Are icy palaces these? But, like thine own | 5 |
| Queen votive rising, ravishing the sight, | |
| From ocean,—hail, O Summer of Delight, | |
| Loosed for no frost-couch the voluptuous zone! | |
| Dangerous the blush of Andalusian even | |
| To youth, that on thine Alameda loiters, | 10 |
| Where, warm as Houris of an Eastern heaven, | |
| Through flower-walks undulate thy dark-eyed daughters, | |
| A glow more mantling by the sea-breeze given, | |
| As love’s sweet star stoops rosy to the conscious waters! | | | | |
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