object:1.ww - The Reverie of Poor Susan
author class:William Wordsworth
book class:Wordsworth - Poems
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
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
Form:
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br>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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