Wednesday 29 April 2009

Bald Worm Shares a Poem a Day: I Travelled Amongst Unknown Men


I have a new goal - to share a great poem every day until the end of term! Today's poem is by the Romantic poet William Wordsworth.

I Travelled Among Unknown Men
I travelled among unknown men
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.

'Tis past, that melancholy dream!
Nor will I quit thy shore
A second time; for still I seem
To love thee more and more.

Among thy mountains did I feel
The joy of my desire;
And she I cherished turned her wheel
Beside an English fire.

Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed,
The bowers where Lucy played;
And thine too is the last green field
That Lucy's eyes surveyed.

William Wordsworth

(Image by Karlequin; used under Creative Commons agreement)

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