Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Woodstock | | Woodstock Park | | Anonymous |
| | | HERE, in a little rustic hermitage | |
| Alfred the Saxon King, Alfred the Great, | |
| Postponed the cares of kingship to translate | |
| The Consolations of the Roman Sage. | |
| Here Geoffrey Chaucer in his ripe old age | 5 |
| Wrote the unrivalled Tales, which soon or late | |
| The venturous hand that strives to imitate | |
| Vanquished must fall on the unfinished page. | |
| Two kings were they, who ruled by right divine | |
| And both supreme; one in the realm of Truth, | 10 |
| One in the realm of Fiction and of Song. | |
| What prince hereditary of their line, | |
| Uprising in the strength and flush of youth | |
| Their glory shall inherit and prolong? | | | | |
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