Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Workington | | Mary Queen of Scots | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | Landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington
DEAR to the Loves and to the Graces vowed, | |
| The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore; | |
| And to the throng, that on the Cumbrian shore | |
| Her landing hailed, how touchingly she bowed! | |
| And like a star (that, from a heavy cloud | 5 |
| Of pine-tree foliage poised in air, forth darts, | |
| When a soft summer gale at evening parts | |
| The gloom that did its loveliness enshroud) | |
| She smiled; but Time, the old Saturnian seer, | |
| Sighed on the wing as her foot pressed the strand, | 10 |
| With step prelusive to a long array | |
| Of woes and degradations hand in hand,— | |
| Weeping captivity and shuddering fear | |
| Stilled by the ensanguined block of Fotheringay! | | | | |
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