Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Geneva, the Lake (Lake Leman) | | Lake Leman | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | | ROUSSEAU, Voltaire, our Gibbon, and de Staël,— | |
| Leman! these names are worthy of thy shore, | |
| Thy shore of names like these; wert thou no more, | |
| Their memory thy remembrance would recall: | |
| To them thy banks were lovely as to all; | 5 |
| But they have made them lovelier, for the lore | |
| Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core | |
| Of human hearts the ruin of a wall | |
| Where dwelt the wise and wondrous; but by thee | |
| How much more, Lake of Beauty! do we feel, | 10 |
| In sweetly gliding o’er thy crystal sea, | |
| The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal, | |
| Which of the heirs of immortality | |
| Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real! | | | | |
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