Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Asia Minor: Miletus | | Catullian Hendecasyllables | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | | HEAR, my beloved, an old Milesian story!— | |
| High, and embosomed in congregated laurels, | |
| Glimmered a temple upon a breezy headland; | |
| In the dim distance amid the skyey billows | |
| Rose a fair island; the god of flocks had placed it. | 5 |
| From the far shores of the bleak resounding island | |
| Oft by the moonlight a little boat came floating, | |
| Came to the sea-cave beneath the breezy headland, | |
| Where amid myrtles a pathway stole in mazes | |
| Up to the groves of the high embosomed temple. | 10 |
| There in a thicket of dedicated roses, | |
| Oft did a priestess, as lovely as a vision, | |
| Pouring her soul to the son of Cytherea, | |
| Pray him to hover around the slight canoe-boat, | |
| And with invisible pilotage to guide it | 15 |
| Over the dusk wave, until the nightly sailor | |
| Shivering with ecstasy sank upon her bosom. | | | | |
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