Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: V. The Home | | The Hudson | | George Sidney Hellman (1878–1958) |
| | | WHERE in its old historic splendor stands | |
| The home of England’s far-famed Parliament, | |
| And waters of the Thames in calm content | |
| At England’s fame flow slowly o’er their sands; | |
| And where the Rhine past vine-entwinèd lands | 5 |
| Courses in castled beauty, there I went; | |
| And far to southern rivers, flower-besprent; | |
| And to the icy streams of northern strands. | |
| Then mine own native shores I trod once more, | |
| And, gazing on thy waters’ majesty, | 10 |
| The memory, O Hudson, came to me | |
| Of one who went to seek the wide world o’er | |
| For love, but found it not. Then home turned he | |
| And saw his mother waiting at the door. | | | | |
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