Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | India: Agra | | Agra | | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| | (From Miriam)
AGRA slept, | |
| By the long light of sunset overswept: | |
| The river flowing through a level land, | |
| By mango-groves and banks of yellow sand, | |
| Skirted with lime and olive, gay kiosks, | 5 |
| Fountains at play, tall minarets of mosques, | |
| Fair pleasure-gardens with their flowering trees | |
| Relieved against the mournful cypresses; | |
| And, air-poised, lightly as the blown sea-foam, | |
| The marble wonder of some holy dome | 10 |
| Hung a white moonrise over the still wood, | |
| Glassing its beauty in a stiller flood. | | | | |
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