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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PLACE NAMES, by THEODORA ROSCOE
First Line: Go take the upper icknield way
Last Line: Sweet to the ear as are old ballad rhymes.
Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Names
First Line: Go take the upper icknield way
Last Line: Sweet to the ear as are old ballad rhymes.
Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Names
Go take the Upper Icknield Way
Through Wendover and roam
Across the Chilterns to the woods
Of Hampden's ancient home.
There's Stokenchurch and Stewkley,
High Wycombe, Slough and Penn,
Stoke Mandeville, and Fingest
Beech hidden in a glen.
There's Amersham and Aylesbury
And Beaconsfield, Coleshill,
There's Burnham, Wing, and Olney
Where lace is made with skill.
Between the Chalfonts, Peter, Giles,
And on past Shardeloes,
The little Misbourne winds and curves,
From Missenden it flows.
On Bledlow Ridge the wind blows soft
Across the Vale to Brill;
And guarding Hughenden there spreads
The common of Naphill.
Such are the names that fall from local lips,
Telling of British, Saxon, Norman times,
Precious inheritance from our forgotten past,
Sweet to the ear as are old ballad rhymes.
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