Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Eden, the River | | The Monument | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | Commonly Called Long Meg and Her Daughters, near the River Eden |
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A WEIGHT of awe, not easy to be borne, | |
| Fell suddenly upon my spirit,—cast | |
| From the dread bosom of the unknown past, | |
| When first I saw that family forlorn. | |
| Speak thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn | 5 |
| The power of years,—pre-eminent, and placed | |
| Apart, to overlook the circle vast,— | |
| Speak, giant-mother! tell it to the Morn | |
| While she dispels the cumbrous shades of night; | |
| Let the Moon hear, emerging from a cloud; | 10 |
| At whose behest uprose on British ground | |
| That sisterhood, in hieroglyphic round | |
| Forth-shadowing, some have deemed, the infinite, | |
| The inviolable God, that tames the proud! | | | |
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