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
Dardanelles (Hellespont) | | The Hellespont | | Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
| | Translated by C. F. Bates
WAVE unto shore in an embrace | |
| Doth ever rue; | |
| The dawn to cheer the wild-flower’s face | |
| Distils the dew. | |
| The wind of evening makes its moan | 5 |
| To cypress-tree; | |
| To terebinth the turtle low | |
| Plains mournfully. | |
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| When all save grief hath found repose, | |
| The moon doth speak, | 10 |
| And to the dormant waves disclose | |
| Her pallid cheek. | |
| Sophia, thy white dome doth seem | |
| To greet blue heaven; | |
| And pensively the heaven’s calm dream | 15 |
| To God is given. | |
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| Or dove or rose, or wave or tomb, | |
| Or rock or tree; | |
| All here below hath somewhere room | |
| Itself to free; | 20 |
| But I, alone, am all alone, | |
| And there is naught | |
| Save, Hellespont, thy sombre tone | |
| Gives back my thought! | | | | |
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