Explore "A very Mournful Ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama" by Lord Byron on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I / THE Moorish King rides up and down, / Through Granada's royal town, / From Elvira's gate to those / Of Bivarambla on he goes. / Woe is me, / Alhama!
II / Letters to the monarch tell / How Alhama's city fell, / In the fire the scroll he threw, / And the messenger he slew. / Woe is me, / Albamal