Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Reggio (Rhegium) | | On Ibycus | | Anonymous |
| | Translated by W. Hay
RHEGIUM, whose feet, Trinacria’s straitened sea | |
| Laves ever, verge extreme of Italy, | |
| Honored be thou in song for having laid | |
| Under thy leafy elms’ embowering shade | |
| The dust of Ibycus, the bard beloved, | 5 |
| The bard of Love, who all its joys had proved; | |
| Mantle his grave with ivy,—round it plant | |
| Reeds, to send forth the shepherd’s rural chant. | | | | |
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