Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Bodiham | | On Beholding Bodiham Castle | | Edward, Lord Thurlow (1781–1829) |
| | On the Bank of the Rother in Sussex
O THOU, brave ruin of the passéd time, | |
| When glorious spirits shone in burning arms, | |
| And the brave trumpet, with its sweet alarms, | |
| Called honor at the matin hour sublime, | |
| And the gray evening; thou hast had thy prime, | 5 |
| And thy full vigor, and the sating harms | |
| Of age have robbed thee of thy warlike charms, | |
| And placed thee here, an image in my rhyme; | |
| The owl now haunts thee, and, oblivious plant, | |
| The creeping ivy, has o’er-veiled thy towers; | 10 |
| And Rother, looking up with eye askant, | |
| Recalling to his mind thy brighter hours, | |
| Laments the time, when, fair and elegant, | |
| Beauty first laughed from out thy joyous bowers! | | | | |
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