Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Pierus, the Mountain, Thessaly | | Mount Pierus | | Antipater (c. 397–319 B.C.) |
| | Translated by W. Hay
THE HELICONIAN springs and rocky steeps | |
| Of Macedonian Piërus have heard | |
| The god-voiced strains of women, and with songs | |
| Praxilla nurtured; Myro; Anyté, | |
| The female Homer; thee of Lesbian dames | 5 |
| Famed for their flowing ringlets; Sappho first | |
| In glory; and Erinna; Telesilla, | |
| Great in thy growing fame; Corinna, thee; | |
| Thee, the bright songstress of the warlike shield, | |
| Athena’s; Nessis mild and woman-voiced; | 10 |
| And gentle Myrtis last,—meet makers all | |
| On the bright page of ever-living song. | |
| Nine Muses mighty Uranus produced, | |
| And nine the Earth,—a deathless joy to man. | | | | |
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