Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Asia Minor: Smyrna | | To a Persian Boy | | Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| | In the Bazaar at Smyrna
THE GORGEOUS blossoms of that magic tree | |
| Beneath whose shade I sat a thousand nights | |
| Breathed from their opening petals all delights | |
| Embalmed in spice of Orient Poesy, | |
| When first, young Persian, I beheld thine eyes, | 5 |
| And felt the wonder of thy beauty grow | |
| Within my brain, as some fair planet’s glow | |
| Deepens, and fills the summer evening skies. | |
| From under thy dark lashes shone on me | |
| The rich, voluptuous soul of Eastern land, | 10 |
| Impassioned, tender, calm, serenely sad,— | |
| Such as immortal Hafiz felt when he | |
| Sang by the fountain-streams of Rocnabad, | |
| Or in the bowers of blissful Samarcand. | | | | |
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