Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Asia Minor: Teos (Sigagik) | | The Tomb of Anacreon | | Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
| | Translated by H. H. Milman
MOTHER of purple grapes, soul-soothing vine, | |
| Whose verdant boughs their graceful tendrils twine: | |
| Still round this urn, with youth unfading, bloom, | |
| The gentle slope of old Anacreon’s tomb. | |
| For so the unmixed-goblet-loving sire, | 5 |
| Touching the livelong night his amorous lyre, | |
| Even low in earth, upon his brows shall wear | |
| The ruddy clustering crowns thy branches bear, | |
| Where, though still fall the sweetest dews, the song | |
| Distilled more sweetly from that old man’s tongue. | 10 | | | |
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