EYES SO TRISTFUL

by: Diego de Saldaña (Late fifteenth century)

      YES so tristful, eyes so tristful,
      Heart so full of care and cumber,
      I was lapped in rest and slumber,
      Ye have made me wakeful, wistful!
      In this life of labor endless
      Who shall comfort my distresses?
      Querulous my soul and friendless
      In its sorrow shuns caresses.
      Ye have made me, ye have made me
      Querulous of you, that care not,
      Eyes so tristful, yet I dare not
      Say to what ye have betrayed me.

--Translated by H.W. Longfellow

"Eyes So Tristful" is reprinted from Hispanic Anthology: Poems Translated from the Spanish by English and North American Poets. Ed. Thomas Walsh. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920.

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