Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory | | Highways | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
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WHO doth not love to follow with his eye | |
| The winding of a public way? the sight, | |
| Familiar object as it is, hath wrought | |
| On my imagination since the morn | |
| Of childhood, when a disappearing line, | 5 |
| One daily present to my eyes, that crossed | |
| The naked summit of a far-off hill | |
| Beyond the limits that my feet had trod, | |
| Was like an invitation into space | |
| Boundless, or guide into eternity. | 10 |
| Yes, something of the grandeur which invests | |
| The mariner who sails the roaring sea | |
| Through storm and darkness, early in my mind | |
| Surrounded too the wanderers of the earth; | |
| Grandeur as much, and loveliness far more. | 15 | | | |
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