Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Valladolid | | The Poet’s Troubles at Valladolid | | Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
I GO, devoured by bugs and mules: for one, | |
| Thanks to a dire old bedstead; for the other, | |
| Thanks to a friend, who, kind as any brother, | |
| Left them with me; and twenty days are gone. | |
| Farewell, old frame, whereon I lay to groan; | 5 |
| Old fragment of some ship from broker’s yard, | |
| Whose crew, like true red rovers, never spared | |
| Their prize, till they had made my blood their own. | |
| Come, mules; your master is not lapt in proof | |
| Against compassion, nor in cruel scorn | 10 |
| Would wish me done to death with heel and hoof. | |
| Farewell, poor court, close hid in town forlorn; | |
| Bull-ring in rural meadow. My low roof | |
| Will find us, man and beast, cheap bread and corn. | | | | |
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