Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Athens | | A Daisy from the Parthenon | | Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) |
| | | FIELD-DAISIES spreading lavish as the light, | |
| How loved they are of all who paint and sing! | |
| Yet dearer far are they unto my sight | |
| Now that I know the precincts whence they spring. | |
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| This very one looked from the Parthenon; | 5 |
| O simple flower! what splendid fate was thine! | |
| Now the Greek glory is about thee thrown, | |
| And oldest archives seem thy leaves to line. | |
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| For me hereafter shall the daisies hold | |
| Hints of the Virgin’s Temple in their face; | 10 |
| Of fabled Phidian wonders, white and gold, | |
| Shall Fancy mind me in each common place. | | | | |
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