Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Porlock | | Sacred to the Memory of E. S. | | Henry Alford (1810–1871) |
| | Written at Worthy Farm, near Porlock, Somerset
THIS side the brow of yon sea-bounding hill | |
| There is an alley overarched with green, | |
| Where thick-grown briers entwine themselves at will; | |
| There, twinkling through the under-flowers, is seen | |
| The ever-shaking ocean far below; | 5 |
| And on the upper side, a rocky wall | |
| Where deepest mosses and lithe ivies grow, | |
| And honeysuckle-blooms in clusters fall. | |
| There walked I when I last remembered thee; | |
| And all too joyfully came o’er my mind | 10 |
| Moments of pleasure by the southern sea, | |
| By our young lives two summers left behind; | |
| Ah, sad-sweet memory,—for that very day | |
| The gloom came on which may not pass away. | | | | |
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