| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | The Reverie of Poor Susan | | By William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | AT the corner of Wood Street; when daylight appears, | |
| Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years: | |
| Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard | |
| In the silence of morning the song of the Bird. | |
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| ’Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees | 5 |
| A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; | |
| Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, | |
| And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. | |
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| Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, | |
| Down which she so often has tripped with her pail; | 10 |
| And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove’s, | |
| The one only dwelling on earth that she loves. | |
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| She looks, and her heart is in heaven: but they fade, | |
| The mist and the river, the hill and the shade: | |
| The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, | 15 |
| And the colours have all passed away from her eyes! | | | | |
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