Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Aldborough | | The Heath | | George Crabbe (1754–1832) |
| | (From The Village)
LO! where the heath, with withering brake grown o’er, | |
| Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor; | |
| From thence a length of burning sand appears, | |
| Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears; | |
| Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, | 5 |
| Reign o’er the land, and rob the blighted rye: | |
| There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, | |
| And to the ragged infant threaten war; | |
| There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil; | |
| There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil; | 10 |
| Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf, | |
| The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf; | |
| O’er the young shoot the charlock throws a shade, | |
| And clasping tares cling round the sickly blade; | |
| With mingled tints the rocky coasts abound, | 15 |
| And a sad splendor vainly shines around. | | | | |
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