Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Cockermouth | | Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | “THOU look’st upon me, and dost fondly think, | |
| Poet! that, stricken as both are by years, | |
| We, differing once so much, are now compeers, | |
| Prepared, when each has stood his time, to sink | |
| Into the dust. Erewhile a sterner link | 5 |
| United us; when thou, in boyish play, | |
| Entering my dungeon, didst become a prey | |
| To soul-appalling darkness. Not a blink | |
| Of light was there; and thus did I, thy tutor, | |
| Make thy young thoughts acquainted with the grave; | 10 |
| While thou wert chasing the winged butterfly | |
| Through my green courts; or climbing, a bold suitor, | |
| Up to the flowers whose golden progeny | |
| Still round my shattered brow in beauty wave.” | | | | |
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