Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Aldborough | | To the Sea | | Capel Lofft (1751–1824) |
| | Written on the Beach at Aldborough
THOU awful sea! upon this shingly beach | |
| Of Aldborough I pace: my gazing eye | |
| Thy world of waters lost in the dim sky | |
| Admiring, and thy echoing waves, that teach, | |
| In voice of thunder, more than tongue can preach; | 5 |
| The knell of ages past and passing by; | |
| And claim their ancient empire o’er the dry | |
| And solid earth; each animating each. | |
| Of towns long sunk, o’er which thy wild waves roar, | |
| Of sea to land, of land to ocean turned, | 10 |
| I muse: and mourn, that who could amplest pour | |
| Homeric tones on thy resounding shore | |
| Porson is dead!—that sea of Grecian lore | |
| Unbounded, in the abyss of fate inurned. | | | | |
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