Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79.
On a Corpse Washed Ashore
By Euphorion (b. c. 275 B.C.)Translated by J. H. Merivale
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Nor that black isle whose name its color shows,
But the wild beach, o’er which, with ceaseless moans,
The vexed Icarian wave, eternal, flows,
Of Drepanum—ill-famèd promontory—
And there, instead of hospitable rites,
The long grass sweeping tells his fate’s sad story
To rude tribes gathered from the neighboring heights.