Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Lepanto | | Sonnet on Lepanto | | Fernando de Herrera (c. 1534–1597) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
DEEP sea, whose thundering waves in tumult roar, | |
| Call forth thy troubled spirit,—bid him rise, | |
| And gaze, with terror pale, and hollow eyes, | |
| On floods all flashing fire, and red with gore. | |
| Lo! as in lists enclosed, on battle-floor | 5 |
| Christian and Sarzan, life and death the prize, | |
| Join conflict: lo! the battered Paynim flies; | |
| The din, the smouldering flames, he braves no more. | |
| Go, bid thy deep-toned bass with voice of power | |
| Tell of this mightiest victory under sky, | 10 |
| This deed of peerless valor’s highest strain; | |
| And say a youth achieved the glorious hour, | |
| Hallowing thy gulf with praise that ne’er shall die,— | |
| The youth of Austria, and the might of Spain. | | | | |
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