Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.
At Lyme Regis
By Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897)C
As a fair palace pavement largely spread,
Where the gray bastions of the eternal hills
Lean over languidly,
Bosomed with leafy trees, and garlanded!
Sunshine and peace; earth clear as heaven one hour;
Save where the sailing cloud its dusky line
Ruffles along the blue,
Brushed by the soft wing of the silent shower.
Did the great Spirit over ocean brood,
Ere the first hill his yet unclouded crest
Reared, or the first fair palm
Doubled her maiden beauty in the flood.
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