Poems about the rivers in Portugal

O Rio Lis

Nas Fontes nasce o Rio Lis
Em Mira d' Aire nasce o Lena;
Se eu pudesse escrevia com giz
Esta amizade tão serena.


Seguem felizes o seu caminho
Ninguém os pode separar.
São como pássaros num ninho
Que passam o dia a namorar!


The Rio Lis (translation in English)

Sources born in Rio Lis
In Mira d'Aire is born Lena;
If I could write with chalk
This friendship so serene.

Happy to follow your path
No one can separate.
They are like birds in a nest
Who spend the day courting!

  

TRABALHO SOBRE O RIO LIS
Vindo de serras calcárias
Pulando pedras e montes.
O rio da nossa terra
Foi mesmo nascer às Fontes.
                                                               
Suas águas preciosas
Moeram papel e pão.
Embelezam nossos campos,
Dão riqueza à região.

Os amores de Lis e Lena
Aqui queremos recordar.
Vão de mãos dadas à praia,
Ambos abraçam o mar.


TRABALHO SOBRE O RIO LIS (translation in English)
Coming from calcareous mountains
Jumping stones and hills.
The river of our land
Has just been born at Fontes.

Its precious waters
Transformed paper and bread.
Made more beautiful our fields,
Gave richness to our region.

The loves of Lis and Lena
Here we want to remember.
They go hand in hand to the beach,
Both, kindly, embrace the ocean.

Rio Lis (translation in English)

born in the Courts
you will find yourself with the sea
Vieira emptying of the beach.

Sometimes you are bullied
polluted, slaughtered
certainly hurt you stay
and, at times, you feel bitter.

You like to whisper
your secrets to the Lena River.

Rio Lis
your water is sweet as love.

You are a blue diamond
As the colors of your water
are green in your margins
lilies, roses, trees will frame.

RIO LIS

Rio Lis is wonderful,

Wonderful as the waters of your bed,

Where the fish, ducks, lives

Lives covered of water

Waters that are very beautiful,

Beautiful lilies grow on your margins

Margins of the city of Leiria.

Lis river
You born in the fonts, in Cortes, very near to Leiria.
Your watercourse finishes in Vieira’s beach.
Your margins are beautiful.
Softly you glide throw the channel.
You have several secrets and myths.
In your margins exists lilies, roses, trees and love …


Rio Lis,

Nasces nas Fontes, nas Cortes, pertinho de Leiria.
Desaguas na praia da Vieira.
As tuas margens são belas.
Deslizas com suavidade no teu leito.
Tens vários segredos e lendas.
Nas tuas margens nascem lírios, rosas, árvores e amor…