Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wales: Anglesea (Mona) | | To the Queen, Entertained at Night by the Countess of Anglesea | | Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) |
| | | FAIR as unshaded light, or as the day | |
| In its first birth, when all the year was May; | |
| Sweet as the altar’s smoke, or as the new | |
| Unfolded bud, swelled by the early dew; | |
| Smooth as the face of waters first appeared, | 5 |
| Ere tides began to strive or winds were heard; | |
| Kind as the willing saints, and calmer far | |
| Than in their sleeps forgiven hermits are. | |
| You that are more than our discreeter fear | |
| Dares praise, with such full art, what make you here? | 10 |
| Here, where the summer is so little seen, | |
| That leaves, her cheapest wealth, scarce reach at green; | |
| You come, as if the silver planet were | |
| Misled awhile from her much injured sphere; | |
| And t’ ease the travels of her beams to-night, | 15 |
| In this small lanthorn would contract her light. | | | | |
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