Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Winslade | | Sonnet Written at Winslade, in Hampshire | | Thomas Warton (1728–1790) |
| | | WINSLADE, thy beech-capt hills, with waving grain | |
| Mantled, thy checkered views of wood and lawn, | |
| Whilom could charm, or when the gradual dawn | |
| ’Gan the gray mist with orient purple stain, | |
| Or evening glimmer’d o’er the folded train, | 5 |
| Her fairest landscapes whence my Muse has drawn, | |
| Too free with servile courtly phrase to fawn, | |
| Too weak to try the buskin’s stately strain: | |
| Yet now no more thy slopes of beech and corn, | |
| Nor views invite, since he far distant strays, | 10 |
| With whom I traced their sweets at eve and morn, | |
| From Albion far, to cull Hesperian bays; | |
| In this alone they please, howe’er forlorn, | |
| That still they can recall those happier days. | | | | |
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