Description
Mounted with three printed excerpts, the first cut from "The Bride of Abydos" (1813) by Lord Byron, Canto II, Stanza III: “Oh! yet—for there my steps have been;/ These feet have pressed the sacred shore,/ These limbs that buoyant wave hath borne—/ Minstrel! with thee to muse, to mourn,/ To trace again those fields of yore,/ Believing every hillock green/ Contains no fabled hero's ashes,/ And that around the undoubted scene/ Thine own ‘broad Hellespont’(23) still dashes,/ Be long my lot! and cold were he/ Who there could gaze denying thee!” The second excerpt, from Stanza II of the same: “The winds are high, and Helle's tide/ Rolls darkly heaving to the main;/ And night's descending shadows hide/ That field with blood bedew’d in vain,/ The desert of old Priam's pride;/ The tombs, sole relics of his reign,/ All—save immortal dreams that could beguile/ The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle!” The third excerpt, from Stanza I of the same: “The winds are high on Helle's wave,/ As on that night of stormy water/ When Love, who sent, forgot to save/ The young—the beautiful—the brave—/ The lonely hope of Sestos' daughter.” From: "Album No.5, Carelli's Sketches, 1839, Sicily & the East".
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image © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.
Location
Dardanelles, Turkey
Country
Turkey
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Landscapes & Seascapes