Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Providence, R. I. | | A November Landscape | | Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) |
| | | HOW like a rich and gorgeous picture hung | |
| In memory’s storied hall, seems that fair scene | |
| O’er which long years their mellowing tints have flung. | |
| The wayside flowers had faded one by one, | |
| Hoar were the hills, the meadows drear and dun,— | 5 |
| When homeward, wending, ’neath the dusky screen | |
| Of the autumnal woods at close of day, | |
| As o’er a pine-clad height my pathway lay, | |
| Lo! at a sudden turn, the vale below | |
| Lay far outspread, all flushed with purple light; | 10 |
| Gray rocks and umbered woods gave back the glow | |
| Of the last day-beams, fading into night; | |
| While down the glen where fair Moshaussuck flows | |
| With all its kindling lamps the distant city rose. | | | | |
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