Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Tempe, the Vale, Thessaly | | Tempe | | Catullus (c. 84–c. 54) |
| | (From On the Nuptials of Peleus, and Thetis)
Translated by F. Nott
FROM Tempe’s vale next ancient Peneus came, | |
| That fertile vale immortalized in fame! | |
| Where Messos’ blue-eyed nymphs delight to rove, | |
| Tempe o’erhung with many a circling grove! | |
| The bay’s aspiring and straight trunk he brought; | 5 |
| The uprooted beech, with stately branches fraught; | |
| The plane, whose foliage spreads a trembling shade; | |
| The cypress tall, that lifts to heaven its head; | |
| And the fam’d tree, that wept, with sister love, | |
| The youth destroyed by the red bolts of Jove,— | 10 |
| All these he amply wove around the throne, | |
| And varying greens in the gay covert shone. | | | | |
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