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.
'Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees
A mountain ascending, a vision of trees;
Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide,
And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale,
Down which she so often has tripped with her pail;
And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's,
The one only dwelling on earth that she loves.
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,
And the colours have all passed away from her eyes!
Notes
NOTES
Form:
aabb
Composition Date:
1798?
1.
Date of composition uncertain, perhaps in the late summer of 1798 when
Wordsworth was in London. The streets mentioned are all in the City of London.
A fifth quatrain, beginning "Poor Outcast! return" was in the poem as first published,
but was omitted after 1800.
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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,
And the colours have all passed away from her eyes!
NICE write!I wish i could write just like him.But i know i can't.The thing really attracts me in his poems is obviously luv for nature and the style of presenting the beaties of nature.His poems starts from any object of nature which is very appealling.
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