Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Bothwell Castle | | Bothwell Castle | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | Passed Unseen, on Account of Stormy Weather
IMMURED in Bothwell’s towers, at times the brave | |
| (So beautiful is Clyde) forgot to mourn | |
| The liberty they lost at Bannockburn. | |
| Once on those steeps I roamed at large, and have | |
| In mind the landscape, as if still in sight; | 5 |
| The river glides, the woods before me wave; | |
| Then why repine that now in vain I crave | |
| Needless renewal of an old delight? | |
| Better to thank a dear and long-past day | |
| For joy its sunny hours were free to give | 10 |
| Than blame the present, that our wish hath crossed. | |
| Memory, like sleep, hath powers which dreams obey, | |
| Dreams, vivid dreams, that are not fugitive: | |
| How little that she cherishes is lost! | | | | |
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