Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Winchester | | Arthur’s Round Table | | Thomas Warton (1728–1790) |
| | | WHERE Venta’s Norman castle still uprears | |
| Its raftered hall, that o’er the grassy foss | |
| And scattered flinty fragments clad in moss | |
| On yonder steep in naked strength appears, | |
| High hung remains, the pride of warlike years, | 5 |
| Old Arthur’s board;—on the capacious round | |
| Some British pen has sketched the names renowned, | |
| In marks obscure, of his immortal peers. | |
| Though joined by magic skill with many a rhyme | |
| The Druid frame, unhonored, falls a prey | 10 |
| To the slow vengeance of the wizard time, | |
| And fade the British characters away; | |
| Yet Spenser’s page, that chants in verse sublime | |
| Those chiefs, shall live, unconscious of decay. | | | | |
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