Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Newstead Abbey | | A Picture at Newstead | | Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
| | | WHAT made my heart, at Newstead, fullest swell? | |
| ’T was not the thought of Byron, of his cry | |
| Stormily sweet, his Titan agony; | |
| It was the sight of that Lord Arundel | |
| Who struck, in heat, the child he loved so well, | 5 |
| And the child’s reason flickered, and did die. | |
| Painted (he willed it) in the gallery | |
| They hang; the picture doth the story tell. | |
| Behold the stern, mailed father, staff in hand! | |
| The little fair-haired son, with vacant gaze, | 10 |
| Where no more lights of sense or knowledge are! | |
| Methinks the woe which made that father stand | |
| Baring his dumb remorse to future days | |
| Was woe than Byron’s woe more tragic far. | | | | |
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