Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Malvern | | At Malvern | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | | I SHALL behold far off thy towering crest, | |
| Proud mountain! from thy heights as slow I stray | |
| Down through the distant vale my homeward way, | |
| I shall behold upon thy rugged breast | |
| The parting sun sit smiling: me the while | 5 |
| Escaped the crowd, thoughts full of heaviness | |
| May visit, as life’s bitter losses press | |
| Hard on my bosom; but I shall beguile | |
| The thing I am, and think that even as thou | |
| Dost lift in the pale beam thy forehead high, | 10 |
| Proud mountain! whilst the scattered vapors fly | |
| Unheeded round thy breast, so, with calm brow, | |
| The shades of sorrow I may meet, and wear | |
| The smile unchanged of peace, though pressed by care! | | | | |
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