Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Greenock | | Greenock | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | WE have not passed into a doleful city, | |
| We who were led to-day down a grim dell, | |
| By some too boldly named “the Jaws of Hell”: | |
| Where be the wretched ones, the sights for pity? | |
| These crowded streets resound no plaintive ditty: | 5 |
| As from the hive where bees in summer dwell, | |
| Sorrow seems here excluded; and that knell, | |
| It neither damps the gay nor checks the witty. | |
| Alas! too busy rival of old Tyre, | |
| Whose merchants princes were, whose decks were thrones, | 10 |
| Soon may the punctual sea in vain respire | |
| To serve thy need, in union with that Clyde | |
| Whose nursling current brawls o’er mossy stones, | |
| The poor, the lonely herdsman’s joy and pride. | | | | |
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