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Poems from the Spanish of Fra Luis Ponce de León

Fray Luis de León

Henry Phillips Jr.'s verse translation of five of Fray Luis's best-known poems (The Ascension, Noche serena, Cuándo será, Vida descansada, Ode to Avarice), printed privately in Philadelphia in 1883.

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Source: Preface omitted; the translator's bracketed note after Noche serena is kept.