Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Woodstock | | Rosamond’s Song | | Joseph Addison (1672–1719) |
| | (From Rosamond)
FROM walk to walk, from shade to shade, | |
| From stream to purling stream conveyed, | |
| Through all the mazes of the grove, | |
| Through all the mingling tracts I rove, | |
| Turning, | 5 |
| Burning, | |
| Changing, | |
| Ranging, | |
| Full of grief and full of love, | |
| Impatient for my lord’s return, | 10 |
| I sigh, I pine, I rave, I mourn, | |
| Was ever passion crossed like mine? | |
| To rend my breast, | |
| And break my rest, | |
| A thousand thousand ills combine. | 15 |
| Absence wounds me, | |
| Fear surrounds me, | |
| Guilt confounds me, | |
| Was ever passion crossed like mine? | |
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| How does my constant grief deface | 20 |
| The pleasures of this happy place! | |
| In vain the spring my senses greets, | |
| In all her colors, all her sweets; | |
| To me the rose | |
| No longer glows, | 25 |
| Every plant | |
| Has lost his scent; | |
| The vernal blooms of various hue, | |
| The blossoms fresh with morning dew, | |
| The breeze that sweeps these fragrant bowers, | 30 |
| Filled with the breath of opening flowers, | |
| Purple scenes, | |
| Winding greens, | |
| Glooms inviting, | |
| Birds delighting | 35 |
| (Nature’s softest, sweetest store), | |
| Charm my tortured soul no more. | |
| Ye powers, I rave, I faint, I die: | |
| Why so slow! great Henry, why? | |
| From death and alarms | 40 |
| Fly, fly to my arms, | |
| Fly to my arms, my monarch, fly. | | | | |
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