Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Stratford-on-Avon | | Shakespeare | | David Garrick (1717–1779) |
| | | THOU soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream | |
| Of things more than mortal sweet Shakespeare would dream, | |
| The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed | |
| For hallowed the turf is which pillowed his head. | |
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| The love-stricken maiden, the soft-sighing swain, | 5 |
| Here rove without danger, and sigh without pain: | |
| The sweet bud of beauty no blight shall here dread, | |
| For hallowed the turf is which pillowed his head. | |
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| Here youth shall be famed for their love and their truth, | |
| And cheerful old age feel the spirit of youth; | 10 |
| For the raptures of fancy here poets shall tread, | |
| For hallowed the turf is that pillowed his head. | |
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| Flow on, silver Avon, in song ever flow! | |
| Be the swans on thy borders still whiter than snow! | |
| Ever full be thy stream, like his fame may it spread! | 15 |
| And the turf ever hallowed which pillowed his head. | | | | |
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