Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Middle States: Hudson, the River, N. Y. | | The Hudson | | Margaretta V. Faugeres (1771–1801) |
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THROUGH many a blooming wild and woodland green | |
| The Hudson’s sleeping waters winding stray; | |
| Now ’mongst the hills its silvery waves are seen, | |
| Through arching willows now they steal away; | |
| Now more majestic rolls the ample tide, | 5 |
| Tall waving elms its clovery borders shade, | |
| And many a stately dome, in ancient pride | |
| And hoary grandeur, there exalts its head. | |
| There trace the marks of culture’s sunburnt hand, | |
| The honeyed buckwheat’s clustering blossoms view,— | 10 |
| Dripping rich odors, mark the beard-grain bland, | |
| The loaded orchard, and the flax-field blue; | |
| The grassy hill, the quivering poplar grove, | |
| The copse of hazel, and the tufted bank, | |
| The long green valley where the white flocks rove, | 15 |
| The jutting rock, o’erhung with ivy dank; | |
| The tall pines waving on the mountain’s brow, | |
| Whose lofty spires catch day’s last lingering beam; | |
| The bending willow weeping o’er the stream, | |
| The brook’s soft gurglings, and the garden’s glow. * * * * * | 20 | | | |
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