Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | Turkey in Europe, and the Principalities
Dardanelles (Hellespont) | | The March of Xerxes | | Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556) |
| | Translated by Sir Aubrey de Vere
WHEN in the wantonness of kingly pride, | |
| Vain Xerxes spurred his war-horse through the tide, | |
| And bore his fleet o’er mountain-tops,—e’en there | |
| The Eternal bade his evil heart despair: | |
| O’er Hellespont and Athos’ marble head, | 5 |
| More than a god he came, less than a man he fled. | | | | |
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