Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Cannes | | Rachel | | Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
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UNTO a lonely villa, in a dell | |
| Above the fragrant, warm Provençal shore, | |
| The dying Rachel in a chair they bore | |
| Up the steep pine-plumed paths of the Estrelle, | |
| And laid her in a stately room, where fell | 5 |
| The shadow of a marble Muse of yore,— | |
| The rose-crowned queen of legendary lore, | |
| Polymnia,—full on her death-bed. ’T was well! | |
| The fret and misery of our northern towns, | |
| In this, her life’s last day, our poor, our pain, | 10 |
| Our jangle of false wits, our climate’s frowns, | |
| Do for this radiant Greek-souled artist cease; | |
| Sole object of her dying eyes remain | |
| The beauty and the glorious art of Greece. | | | | |
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