Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | London Streets | | Wood Street | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | The Reverie of Poor Susan
AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, | |
| Hangs a thrush that sings loud,—it has sung for three years; | |
| Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard | |
| In the silence of morning the song of the bird. | |
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| ’T is a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees | 5 |
| A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; | |
| Bright volumes of vapor through Lothbury glide, | |
| And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. | |
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| Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, | |
| Down which she so often has tripped with her pail; | 10 |
| And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove’s, | |
| The one only dwelling on earth that she loves. | |
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| She looks, and her heart is in heaven; but they fade, | |
| The mist and the river, the hill and the shade: | |
| The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, | 15 |
| And the colors have all passed away from her eyes! | | | | |
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