Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | Danish America: Greenland | | Greenland | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | (From The Spirit of Discovery)
LET Greenland’s snows | |
| Then shine, and mark the melancholy train | |
| There left to perish, whilst the cold pale day | |
| Declines along the further ice, that binds | |
| The ship, and leaves in night the sinking scene. | 5 |
| Sad winter closes on the deep; the smoke | |
| Of frost, that late amusive to the eye | |
| Rose o’er the coast, is passed, and all is now | |
| One torpid blank; the freezing particles | |
| Blown blistering, and the white bear seeks her cave. | 10 |
| Ill-fated outcasts, when the morn again | |
| Shall streak with feeble beam the frozen waste, | |
| Your air-bleached and unburied carcasses | |
| Shall press the ground, and, as the stars fade off, | |
| Your stony eyes glare mid the desert snows! | 15 | | | |
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