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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PYRENEES, by GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE SEIGNEUR DU BARTAS First Line: Frenchman, halt here awhyle nor leave this land Last Line: The eternal sweat of travail downward pourynge. Alternate Author Name(s): Guillaume De Saluste Subject(s): France; Spain | |||
FRENCHMAN, halt here awhyle nor leave this lande Where Nature a soe rockye wall doth rear, That Ariège cleaves with his impetuous hande, A countrye that in beautye hath no peer. Pilgrym, 'tis not a mountayne thou dost see But a Briareus vast whose loftye girth Doth holde the pass against his enemie, Near Spaine from France, and France from Spanysh earth. One arm in France, the other in Spaine set, As Atlas on his head he hath like weighte; Within two seas his separate feet are wet; The forests dense are locks upon his pate; The rocks his bones are, and the rivers roarynge The eternal sweat of travail downward pourynge. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR AL-TAYIB SALIH by KHALED MATTAWA MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION by MICHAEL S. HARPER THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN by CAROLYN KIZER ON GREDOS by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO SPANISH SONNETS: 1 by JOHN UPDIKE SPANISH SONNETS: 5 by JOHN UPDIKE SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME by CESAR VALLEJO TO MADAME DE SEVIGNE by MATHIEU DE MONTREUIL THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): JASON'S SOWING AND REAPING by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS |
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