Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Corinth | | Ruins of Corinth | | Antipater of Sidon (fl. c. 100 B.C.) |
| | Translated by Wellesley
WHERE are thy splendors, Dorian Corinth? Where | |
| Thy crested turrets, thy ancestral goods, | |
| The temple of the blest, the dwellings of the fair, | |
| The high-born dames, the myriad multitudes? | |
| There ’s not a trace of thee, sad doomed one, left; | 5 |
| By ravening war at once of all bereft. | |
| We, the sad nereids, offspring of the surge, | |
| Alone are spared to chant the halcyon’s dirge. | | | | |
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