Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. | | | | From Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle |
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | I WAS 1 thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile! | |
| Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee: | |
| I saw thee every day; and all the while | |
| Thy Form was sleeping on a glassy sea. | |
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| So pure the sky, so quiet was the air! | 5 |
| So like, so very like, was day to day! | |
| Whene’er I looked, thy Image still was there; | |
| It trembled, but it never passed away … | |
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| Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter’s hand, | |
| To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, | 10 |
| The light that never was, on sea or land, | |
| The consecration, and the Poet’s dream … | |
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