Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Rydal | | Rydal Mount | | Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800–1833) |
| | (From The Poet’s Home)
LOW and white, yet scarcely seen, | |
| Are its walls for mantling green; | |
| Not a window lets in light | |
| But through flowers clustering bright; | |
| Not a glance may wander there | 5 |
| But it falls on something fair: | |
| Garden choice and fairy mound, | |
| Only that no elves are found; | |
| Winding walk and sheltered nook, | |
| For student grave and graver book; | 10 |
| Or a bird-like bower, perchance, | |
| Fit for maiden and romance. | |
| Then, far off, a glorious sheen | |
| Of wide and sunlit waters seen; | |
| Hills that in the distance lie | 15 |
| Blue and yielding as the sky; | |
| And nearer, closing round the nest, | |
| The home,—of all the “living crest”; | |
| Other rocks and mountains stand | |
| Rugged, yet a guardian band, | 20 |
| Like those that did in fable old | |
| Elysium from the world enfold. * * * * * | | | | |
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