Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wilton | | Sonnet Written after Seeing Wilton House | | Thomas Warton (1728–1790) |
| | | FROM Pembroke’s princely dome, where mimic art | |
| Decks with a magic hand the dazzling bowers, | |
| Its living hues where the warm pencil pours, | |
| And breathing forms from the rude marble start, | |
| How to life’s humbler scene can I depart? | 5 |
| My breast all glowing from those gorgeous towers, | |
| In my low cell how cheat the sullen hours! | |
| Vain the complaint; for fancy can impart | |
| (To fate superior, and to fortune’s doom) | |
| Whate’er adorns the stately-storied hall: | 10 |
| She, mid the dungeon’s solitary gloom, | |
| Can dress the graces in their Attic pall, | |
| Bid the green landskip’s vernal beauty bloom, | |
| And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. | | | | |
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