Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Ebro, the River | | Bird That Art Singing on Ebro’s Side | | Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) |
| | | BIRD that art singing on Ebro’s side! | |
| Where myrtle shadows make dim the tide, | |
| Doth sorrow dwell midst the leaves with thee? | |
| Doth song avail thy full heart to free? | |
| Bird of the midnight’s purple sky! | 5 |
| Teach me the spell of thy melody. | |
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| Bird! is it blighted affection’s pain | |
| Whence the sad sweetness flows through thy strain? | |
| And is the wound of that arrow stilled | |
| When thy lone music the leaves hath filled? | 10 |
| Bird of the midnight’s purple sky! | |
| Teach me the spell of thy melody. | | | | |
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