Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Clifton | | The Bridge between Clifton and Leigh Woods | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | | FROWN ever opposite, the angel cried, | |
| Who, with an earthquake’s might and giant hand, | |
| Severed these riven rocks, and bade them stand | |
| Severed forever! The vast ocean-tide, | |
| Leaving its roar without at his command, | 5 |
| Shrank, and beneath the woods through the green land | |
| Went gently murmuring on, so to deride | |
| The frowning barriers that its force defied! | |
| But Art, high o’er the trailing smoke below | |
| Of sea-bound steamer, on yon summit’s head | 10 |
| Sat musing; and where scarce a wandering crow | |
| Sailed o’er the chasm, in thought a highway led; | |
| Conquering, as by an arrow from a bow, | |
| The scene’s lone genius by her elfin-thread. | | | | |
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