Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | On a Portrait of Wordsworth | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
| | By B. R. Haydon
WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn! Let the cloud | |
| Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind, | |
| Then break against the rock, and show behind | |
| The lowland valleys floating up to crowd | |
| The sense with beauty. He, with forehead bowed | 5 |
| And humble-lidded eyes, as one inclined | |
| Before the sovran thought of his own mind, | |
| And very meek with inspirations proud,— | |
| Takes here his rightful place as poet-priest | |
| By the high-altar, singing prayer and prayer | 10 |
| To the higher Heavens. A noble vision free, | |
| Our Haydon’s hand hath flung out from the mist! | |
| No portrait this, with Academic air,— | |
| This is the poet and his poetry. | | | | |
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