Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Croglin, the River | | Nunnery Dell | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | THE FLOODS are roused, and will not soon be weary; | |
| Down from the Pennine Alps how fiercely sweeps | |
| Croglin, the stately Eden’s tributary! | |
| He raves, or through some moody passage creeps, | |
| Plotting new mischief; out again he leaps | 5 |
| Into broad light, and sends, through regions airy, | |
| That voice which soothed the nuns while on the steeps | |
| They knelt in prayer, or sang to blissful Mary. | |
| That union ceased; then, cleaving easy walks | |
| Through crags, and smoothing paths beset with danger, | 10 |
| Came studious Taste; and many a pensive stranger | |
| Dreams on the banks, and to the river talks. | |
| What change shall happen next to Nunnery Dell? | |
| Canal, and viaduct, and railway, tell! | | | | |
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