Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Grasmere | | A Remembrance of Grasmere | | Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) |
| | | O VALE and lake, within your mountain urn | |
| Smiling so tranquilly, and set so deep! | |
| Oft doth your dreamy loveliness return, | |
| Coloring the tender shadows of my sleep | |
| With light Elysian; for the hues that steep | 5 |
| Your shores in melting lustre seem to float | |
| On golden clouds from spirit-lands remote, | |
| Isles of the blest, and in our memory keep | |
| Their place with holiest harmonies. Fair scene, | |
| Most loved by evening and her dewy star! | 10 |
| O, ne’er may man, with touch unhallowed, jar | |
| The perfect music of thy charm serene! | |
| Still, still unchanged, may one sweet region wear | |
| Smiles that subdue the soul to love and tears and prayer. | | | | |
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