Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Corston | | Corston | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | AS thus I stand beside the murmuring stream, | |
| And watch its current, Memory here portrays | |
| Scenes faintly formed of half-forgotten days, | |
| Like far-off woodlands by the moon’s bright beam | |
| Dimly descried, but lovely. I have worn | 5 |
| Amid these haunts the heavy hours away, | |
| When childhood idled through the sabbath day; | |
| Risen to my tasks at winter’s earliest morn; | |
| And, when the summer twilight darkened here, | |
| Thinking of home, and all of heart forlorn, | 10 |
| Have sighed, and shed in secret many a tear. | |
| Dreamlike and indistinct those days appear, | |
| As the faint sounds of this low brooklet, borne | |
| Upon the breeze, reach fitfully the ear. | | | | |
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