Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Dartmoor | | Dartmoor | | Noel Thomas Carrington (1777–1830) |
| | * * * * * IN sunlight and in shade, | |
| Repose and storm, wide waste! I since have trod | |
| Thy hill and dale magnificent. Again | |
| I seek thy solitudes profound, in this | |
| Thy hour of deep tranquillity, when rests | 5 |
| The sunbeam on thee, and thy desert seems | |
| To sleep in the unwonted brightness, calm, | |
| But stern; for, though the spirit of the Spring | |
| Breathes on thee, to the charmer’s whisper kind | |
| Thou listenest not, nor ever puttest on | 10 |
| A robe of beauty, as the fields that bud | |
| And blossom near thee. Yet I love to tread | |
| Thy central wastes, where not a sound intrudes | |
| Upon the ear but rush of wing or leap | |
| Of the hoarse waterfall. And O, ’t is sweet | 15 |
| To list the music of thy torrent streams; | |
| For thou too hast thy minstrelsies for him | |
| Who from their liberal mountain-urn delights | |
| To trace thy waters, as from source to sea | |
| They rush tumultuous. | 20 | | | |
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