| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | ‘I Travelled among Unknown Men’ | | By William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | I TRAVELLED among unknown men, | |
| In lands beyond the sea; | |
| Nor, England! did I know till then | |
| What love I bore to thee. | |
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| ’Tis past, that melancholy dream! | 5 |
| Nor will I quit thy shore | |
| A second time; for still I seem | |
| To love thee more and more. | |
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| Among thy mountains did I feel | |
| The joy of my desire; | 10 |
| And she I cherished turned her wheel | |
| Beside an English fire. | |
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| Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed | |
| The bowers where Lucy played; | |
| And thine too is the last green field | 15 |
| That Lucy’s eyes surveyed. | | | | |
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