Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Asia Minor: Ida, the Mountain | | Mount Ida | | Seymour Green Wheeler Benjamin (1837–1914) |
| | | NOW twilight gently hovers o’er the deep. | |
| The winds are hushed; becalmed the isleman’s bark | |
| Shows its white pinions on the increasing dark, | |
| And mournfully at foot of yonder steep | |
| The dying surf rolls up the lonely shore. | 5 |
| Lo! heaving hoary-headed to the sky, | |
| In stern but venerable majesty, | |
| Mount Ida distant stands. There, times of yore, | |
| The shepherd prince his pastoral syrinx played; | |
| And there did lofty walls and turrets gleam | 10 |
| (Whose very memory seemeth like a dream) | |
| That stood coeval with Achilles’ shade. | |
| O, since the Cyclades with beacons shone, | |
| What ages have bewailed for Troy o’erthrown! | | | | |
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