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Poem by William Wordsworth


Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge: Continued


THEY dreamt not of a perishable home
Who thus could build. Be mine, in hours of fear
Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here;
Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam;
Where bubbles burst, and folly’s dancing foam
Melts, if it cross the threshold; where the wreath
Of awe-struck wisdom droops: or let my path
Lead to that younger pile, whose sky-like dome
Hath typified by reach of daring art
Infinity’s embrace; whose guardian crest,
The silent cross, among the stars shall spread
As now, when she hath also seen her breast
Filled with mementos, satiate with its part
Of grateful England’s overflowing dead.



William Wordsworth


William Wordsworth's other poems:
  1. Remembrance of Collins
  2. Monastery of Old Bangor
  3. Processions
  4. On Revisiting Dunolly Castle
  5. The Wishing-gate


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