Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Dover | | Dover Cliffs | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | (From Banwell Hill)
ON these white cliffs, that calm above the flood | |
| Uprear their shadowing heads, and at their feet | |
| Hear not the surge that has for ages beat, | |
| How many a lonely wanderer has stood! | |
| And, whilst the lifted murmurs met his ear, | 5 |
| And o’er the distant billows the still eve | |
| Sailed slow, has thought of all his heart must leave | |
| To-morrow, of the friends he loved most dear; | |
| Of social scenes, from which he wept to part! | |
| Oh! if, like me, he knew how fruitless all | 10 |
| The thoughts that would full fain the past recall, | |
| Soon would he quell the risings of his heart, | |
| And brave the wild winds and unhearing tide,— | |
| The world his country, and his God his guide. | | | | |
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