Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Hastings | | Hastings | | Edward, Lord Thurlow (1781–1829) |
| | | O MOON, that shinest on this heathy wild | |
| And light’st the hill of Hastings with thy ray, | |
| How am I with thy sad delight beguiled, | |
| How hold with fond imagination play! | |
| By thy broad taper I call up the time | 5 |
| When Harold on the bleeding verdure lay, | |
| Though great in glory, overstained with crime, | |
| And fallen by his fate from kingly sway! | |
| On bleeding knights, and on war-broken arms, | |
| Torn banners, and the dying steeds you shone, | 10 |
| When this fair England and her peerless charms, | |
| And all but honor, to the foe were gone! | |
| Here died the king, whom his brave subjects chose, | |
| But, dying, lay amid his Norman foes. | | | | |
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