Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CONQUERORS, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)


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First Line: Falcons fierce they are from charnel nest
Last Line: From out the ocean, strange new stars arise.


Falcons fierce they are from charnel nest,
Weary of flight and burdens of their woe;
From Palos of Moguer they spell-bound go.
Heroic dreams and coarse their minds invest,
Far in deep mines the precious gold-veins rest
Waiting for them; and as the trade-winds blow
Filling their sails, they drive them all too slow
To that mysterious shore, -- world of the West.
The phosphorescent blue of tropic seas
Colored their dreams when in the languid breeze
They slept each eve in hope of morrows bright,
Of epic morrows; or in unknown skies,
Leaning entranced, they saw from carvels white
From out the ocean, strange new stars arise.






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