Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Woodstock | | Woodstock | | Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) |
| | (From On the Prospect of Peace)
FROM fields of death to Woodstock’s peaceful glooms | |
| (The poet’s haunt) Britannia’s hero comes— | |
| Begin, my Muse, and softly touch the string: | |
| Here Henry loved; and Chaucer learned to sing. | |
| Hail fabled grotto! hail Elysian soil! | 5 |
| Thou fairest spot of fair Britannia’s isle! | |
| Where kings of old concealed forgot the throne, | |
| And beauty was content to shine unknown; | |
| Where love and war by turns pavilions rear, | |
| And Henry’s bowers near Blenheim’s dome appear; | 10 |
| The wearied champion lull in soft alcoves, | |
| The noblest boast of thy romantic groves. | |
| Oft, if the Muse presage, shall he be seen | |
| By Rosamonda fleeting o’er the green, | |
| In dreams be hailed by heroes’ mighty shades, | 15 |
| And hear old Chaucer warble through the glades: | |
| O’er the famed echoing vaults his name shall bound, | |
| And hill to hill reflect the favorite sound. | | | | |
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