Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Beccles | | Beccles | | George Crabbe (1754–1832) |
| | (From The Lover’s Journey)
FORTH rode Orlando by a river’s side, | |
| Inland and winding, smooth, and full and wide, | |
| That rolled majestic on, in one soft flowing tide; | |
| The bottom gravel, flowery were the banks, | |
| Tall willows, waving in their broken ranks; | 5 |
| The road, now near, now distant, winding led | |
| By lovely meadows which the waters fed; | |
| He passed the wayside inn, the village spire, | |
| Nor stopped to gaze, to question, or admire; | |
| On either side the rural mansions stood, | 10 |
| With hedge-row trees, and hills high-crowned with wood, | |
| And many a devious stream that reached the nobler flood. | | | | |
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