Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Asia Minor: Crete (Candia), the Island | | Crete | | Dante Alighieri (c. 1265–1321) |
| | (From Inferno, Canto XIV) Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“IN the mid-sea there sits a wasted land,” | |
| Said he thereafterward, “whose name is Crete, | |
| Under whose king the world of old was chaste. | |
| There is a mountain there, that once was glad | |
| With waters and with leaves, which was called Ida; | 5 |
| Now ’t is deserted, as a thing worn out. | |
| Rhea once chose it for the faithful cradle | |
| Of her own son; and to conceal him better, | |
| Whene’er he cried, she there had clamors made.” | | | | |
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