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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HAMPSTEAD (1), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet upland, to whose walks with fond repair
Last Line: And love domestic, smiling equably.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Hampstead, England
First Line: Sweet upland, to whose walks with fond repair
Last Line: And love domestic, smiling equably.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Hampstead, England
Sweet upland, to whose walks with fond repair
Out of thy western slope I took my rise
Day after day, and on these feverish eyes
Met the moist fingers of the bathing air, --
If health, unearned of thee, I may not share,
Keep it, I pray thee, where my memory lies,
In thy green lanes, brown dells, and breezy skies,
Till I return, and find thee doubly fair.
Wait then my coming, on that lightsome land,
Health, and the joy that out of nature springs,
And freedom's air-blown locks: -- but stay with me,
Friendship, frank entering with the cordial hand,
And honor, and the Muse with growing wings,
And love domestic, smiling equably.
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