Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Plumpton | | Plumpton | | Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) |
| | | WHO would not here become a hermit? here | |
| Grow old in song? here die, on Nature’s breast | |
| Hushed, like yon wild bird on the lake, to rest? | |
| Then laid asleep beneath the branches sere, | |
| Till the Awakener in the east appear, | 5 |
| And call the dead to judgment? Quietness, | |
| Methinks the heart-whole rustic loves thee less | |
| Than the town’s thought-worn smiler. O, most dear | |
| Art thou to him who flies from care to bowers | |
| That breathe of sainted calmness! and to me | 10 |
| More welcome than the breath of hawthorn flowers | |
| To children of the city, when delight | |
| Leads them from smoke to cowslips, is the sight | |
| Of these green shades, those rocks, this little sea. | | | | |
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