Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | Turkey in Europe, and the Principalities
Bosphorus (Straits of Constantinople) | | On a Young Bride Drowned in the Bosphorus | | Agathias (c. 530–582) |
| | Translated by W. Peter
STRANGER! shouldst thou to Thessaly return, | |
| Say to my heart’s dear lord that here I lie, | |
| Here, where the Bosphor’s waves are foaming high, | |
| And bid him near our bower my name inurn,— | |
| So to preserve his young bride’s memory. | 5 | | | |
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