Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Skiddaw | | Sonnet Written on Skiddaw, During a Tempest | | John Wilson (1720–1789) |
| | | IT was a dreadful day, when late I passed | |
| O’er thy dim vastness, Skiddaw! Mist and cloud | |
| Each subject fell obscured, and rushing blast | |
| To thee made darling music, wild and loud, | |
| Thou Mountain Monarch! Rain in torrents played, | 5 |
| As when at sea a wave is borne to heaven, | |
| A watery spire, then on the crew dismayed | |
| Of reeling ship with downward wrath is driven. | |
| I could have thought that every living form | |
| Had fled, or perished in that savage storm, | 10 |
| So desolate the day. To me were given | |
| Peace, calmness, joy; then to myself I said, | |
| Can grief, time, chance, or elements control | |
| Man’s chartered pride, the liberty of soul? | | | | |
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