Raymond Biswanger Slide Collection
William Wordsworth: 1883
Ullswater and Westmorland, Cumbria
Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833XLIV. Lowther
LOWTHER! in thy majestic Pile are seen
Cathedral pomp and grace, in apt accord
With the baronial castle's sterner mien;
Union significant of God adored,
And charters won and guarded by the sword
Of ancient honour; whence that goodly state
Of polity which wise men venerate,
And will maintain, if God his help afford.
Hourly the democratic torrent swells;
For airy promises and hopes suborned
The strength of backward-looking thoughts is scorned.
Fall if ye must, ye Towers and Pinnacles,
With what ye symbolise; authentic Story
Will say, Ye disappeared with England's Glory!
William Wordsworth (1833)
Lowther Castle, Westmorland, Cumbria [1 October 1987]
Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833
XLVI. The Somnambulist
LIST, ye who pass by Lyulph's Tower
At eve; how softly then
Doth Aira-force, that torrent hoarse,
Speak from the woody glen!
Fit music for a solemn vale!
And holier seems the ground
To him who catches on the gale
The spirit of a mournful tale,
Embodied in the sound.
William Wordsworth (1833)
Lyulph's Tower near Ullswater, Cumbria [2 May 1895]
