Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Concord (Musketaquid), Mass. | | At Hawthorne’s Grave | | Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) |
| | The place is marked by the one word “Hawthorne.” |
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CAN any famous marble whose broad shaft | |
| Is lettered full with words of life and death, | |
| Whose base and cap assert the sculptor’s craft | |
| In some device that reins the rapid breath; | |
| Can any meet the eye with such a power | 5 |
| As just this fragrant word of simple place? | |
| Had ever small, white stone so rich a dower? | |
| Ever such sovereignty, so little space | |
| As this? Yet best befitted in a word; | |
| Naught would one add for majesty of Fame, | 10 |
| Yet standing here the fancy in me stirred | |
| To hedge his rest with that which bears his name, | |
| That Nature might in his memorial share, | |
| Divulging, with her blossoms, who lies there. | | | |
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