Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Benhall | | Benhall | | Bernard Barton (1784–1849) |
| | | BENHALL! although I have not lately sought, | |
| As I had purposed, thy delightful shades, | |
| Their charms survive; and oft by memory’s aids, | |
| In living beauty are before me brought. | |
| No breeze that sweeps their flowers with perfume fraught; | 5 |
| Nor sun, nor moon-beam, whose soft light pervades | |
| The coy recesses of thy loveliest glades, | |
| Sweeter, or fairer, than thou art to thought! | |
| Yet not thy scenery only thus endears | |
| Thy memory,—deeper spell remains behind: | 10 |
| Rich art thou in the lore of long-past years, | |
| The songs of bards, whose brows by fame are twined | |
| With deathless bays; and, worthy such compeers, | |
| A poet of thy own, of taste refined. | | | | |
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