Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Tyne and Wainsbeck | | Tyne and Wainsbeck | | Mark Akenside (1721–1770) |
| | (From Pleasures of the Imagination)
WOULD I again were with you, O ye dales | |
| Of Tyne, and ye most ancient woodlands! where, | |
| Oft as the giant flood obliquely strides, | |
| And his banks open, and his lawns extend, | |
| Stops short the pleaséd traveller to view, | 5 |
| Presiding o’er the scene, some rustic tower | |
| Founded by Norman or by Saxon hands; | |
| O ye Northumbrian shades! which overlook | |
| The rocky pavement and the mossy falls | |
| Of solitary Wensbeck’s limpid stream, | 10 |
| How gladly I recall your well-known seats | |
| Beloved of old; and that delightful time | |
| When, all alone, for many a summer’s day | |
| I wandered through your calm recesses, fed | |
| In silence by some powerful hand unseen. | 15 | | | |
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