Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Rydal | | Rydal Mount, June, 1838 | | Henry Alford (1810–1871) |
| | | THIS day without its record may not pass, | |
| In which I first have seen the lowly roof | |
| That shelters Wordsworth’s age. A love intense, | |
| Born of the power that charmed me in his song, | |
| But grown beyond it into higher moods | 5 |
| And deeper gratitude, bound me to seek | |
| His rural dwelling. Fitting place I found, | |
| Blest with rare beauty, set in deepest calm: | |
| Looking upon still waters, whose expanse | |
| Might tranquillize all thought; and bordered round | 10 |
| By mountains springing from the turfy slopes | |
| That bound the margin, to where heath and fern | |
| Dapple their soaring sides, and higher still | |
| To where the bare crags cleave the vaporous sky. | | | | |
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