Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Corinth | | Corinth | | Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) |
| | On Leaving Greece
I STOOD upon that great Acropolis, | |
| The turret-gate of Nature’s citadel, | |
| Where once again, from slavery’s thick abyss | |
| Strangely delivered, Grecian warriors dwell. | |
| I watched the bosom of Parnassus swell, | 5 |
| I traced Eleusis, Athens, Salamis, | |
| And that rude fane below, which lives to tell | |
| Where reigned the city of luxurious bliss. | |
| Within the maze of great antiquity | |
| My spirit wandered tremblingly along; | 10 |
| As one who with rapt ears to a wild song | |
| Hearkens some while, then knows not whether he | |
| Has comprehended all its melody, | |
| So in that parting hour was it with Greece and me. | | | | |
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