Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Corby | | Monument of Mrs. Howard | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | In Wetheral Church, near Corby, on the Banks of the Eden |
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STRETCHED on the dying mother’s lap lies dead | |
| Her new-born babe; dire ending of bright hope! | |
| But sculpture here, with the divinest scope | |
| Of luminous faith, heavenward hath raised that head | |
| So patiently; and through one hand has spread | 5 |
| A touch so tender for the insensate child,— | |
| (Earth’s lingering love to parting reconciled, | |
| Brief parting, for the spirit is all but fled,)— | |
| That we, who contemplate the turns of life | |
| Through this still medium, are consoled and cheered; | 10 |
| Feel with the mother, think the severed wife | |
| Is less to be lamented than revered; | |
| And own that art, triumphant over strife | |
| And pain, hath powers to eternity endeared. | | | |
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