Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Ledbury | | St. Catherine of Ledbury | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | WHEN human touch (as monkish books attest) | |
| Nor was applied nor could be, Ledbury bells | |
| Broke forth in concert flung adown the dells, | |
| And upward, high as Malvern’s cloudy crest; | |
| Sweet tones, and caught by a noble lady blest | 5 |
| To rapture! Mabel listened at the side | |
| Of her loved mistress; soon the music died, | |
| And Catherine said, Here I set up my rest. | |
| Warned in a dream, the wanderer long had sought | |
| A home that by such miracle of sound | 10 |
| Must be revealed: she heard it now, or felt | |
| The deep, deep joy of a confiding thought; | |
| And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt | |
| Till she exchanged for heaven that happy ground. | | | | |
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