On the Tomb of Themistocles. Plato the Comic Poet. Greece: Piraeus (Porto Leone). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79.

Greece: Piræus (Porto Leone)

On the Tomb of Themistocles

Plato the Comic Poet


Translated by R. Cumberland BY the sea’s margin, on the watery strand,
Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand:
By this directed, to thy native shore
The merchant shall convey his freighted store;
And when our fleets are summoned to the fight,	5
Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight.