Inscribed on a Cenotaph. Simonides (c. 556-468 B.C.). Greece: Geraneia. 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: Geraneia

Inscribed on a Cenotaph

Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.)


Anonymous translation O CLOUD-CAPT Geraneia, rock unblest!
Would thou hadst reared far hence thy haughty crest,
By Tanais wild, or wastes where Ister flows,
Nor looked on Sciron from thy silent snows!
A cold, cold corpse he lies beneath the wave,	5
This tomb speaks, tenantless, his ocean-grave.