Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | London | | Return to London | | Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | | FROM the dull confines of the drooping west, | |
| To see the day spring from the pregnant east, | |
| Ravisht in spirit, I come, nay more, I flie | |
| To thee, blest place of my nativitie! | |
| Thus, thus with hallowed foot I touch the ground, | 5 |
| With thousand blessings by thy fortune crown’d. | |
| O fruitful genius! that bestowest here | |
| An everlasting plenty, yeere by yeere. | |
| O place! O people! manners! fram’d to please | |
| All nations, customes, kindreds, languages! | 10 |
| I am a free-born Roman; suffer then, | |
| That I amongst you live a citizen. | |
| London my home is; though by hard fate sent | |
| Into a long and irksome banishment, | |
| Yet since call’d back, henceforward let me be, | 15 |
| O native countrey, repossest by thee! | |
| For, rather then I ’le to the west return, | |
| I ’le beg of thee first here to have mine urn. | |
| Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall; | |
| Give thou my sacred reliques buriall. | 20 | | | |
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