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: Bosphorus (Straits of Constantinople)

On a Young Bride Drowned in the Bosphorus

By Agathias (c. 530–582)

Translated by W. Peter

STRANGER! shouldst thou to Thessaly return,

Say to my heart’s dear lord that here I lie,

Here, where the Bosphor’s waves are foaming high,

And bid him near our bower my name inurn,—

So to preserve his young bride’s memory.