Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | Turkey in Europe, and the Principalities
Albania | | Albania | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | (From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage)
LAND of Albania! where Iskander rose, | |
| Theme of the young, and beacon of the wise, | |
| And he, his namesake, whose oft-baffled foes | |
| Shrunk from his deeds of chivalrous emprize: | |
| Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes | 5 |
| On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men! | |
| The cross descends, thy minarets arise, | |
| And the pale crescent sparkles in the glen, | |
| Through many a cypress-grove within each city’s ken. | | | | |
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