Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Donnerdale | | The Plain of Donnerdale | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | THE OLD inventive poets, had they seen, | |
| Or rather felt, the enhancement that detains | |
| Thy waters, Duddon! mid these flowery plains, | |
| The still repose, the liquid lapse serene, | |
| Transferred to bowers imperishably green, | 5 |
| Had beautified Elysium! But these chains | |
| Will soon be broken;—a rough course remains, | |
| Rough as the past; where thou, of placid mien, | |
| Innocuous as a firstling of the flock, | |
| And countenanced like a soft cerulean sky, | 10 |
| Shalt change thy temper, and, with many a shock | |
| Given and received in mutual jeopardy, | |
| Dance, like a Bacchanal, from rock to rock, | |
| Tossing her frantic thyrsus wide and high! | | | | |
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