Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Lepanto | | On a Grotto and Warm Spring | | Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) |
| | At the Head of the Gulf of Lepanto
WITHIN this grot did Amphitrite, | |
| Willing a beauteous shore to bless, | |
| Expose the full unshaded light | |
| Of all her ocean-queenliness. | |
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| Into the rock the vital glow | 5 |
| Past out from her translucid form, | |
| And thus the springs that hither flow | |
| Are made forever summer-warm. | |
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| Alas! the name of her who wrought | |
| This work, and all her glorious train, | 10 |
| Have faded far from common thought, | |
| And never will be there again. | |
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| But thou,—who in these tempered waves | |
| Delightest thy dust-fevered brow,— | |
| For thee the past has no such graves, | 15 |
| Where poets worshipped, worship thou. | | | | |
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