Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Porlock | | Porlock | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | PORLOCK! thy verdant vale so fair to sight, | |
| Thy lofty hills which fern and furze imbrown, | |
| The waters that roll musically down | |
| Thy woody glens, the traveller with delight | |
| Recalls to memory, and the channel gray | 5 |
| Circling its surges in thy level bay. | |
| Porlock! I also shall forget thee not, | |
| Here by the unwelcome summer rain confined; | |
| But often shall hereafter call to mind | |
| How here, a patient prisoner, ’t was my lot | 10 |
| To wear the lonely, lingering close of day, | |
| Making my sonnet by the alehouse fire, | |
| Whilst Idleness and Solitude inspire | |
| Dull rhymes to pass the duller hours away. | | | | |
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