And Joy can tell, . . .
FOOTNOTE:
[DR] Compare similar regrets in The Excursion.—Ed.
"I WATCH, AND LONG HAVE WATCHED, WITH CALM REGRET"
Composed 1819.—Published 1819[DS]
[Suggested in front of Rydal Mount, the rocky parapet being the summit of Loughrigg Fell opposite. Not once only, but a hundred times, have the feelings of this sonnet been awakened by the same objects seen from the same place.—I. F.]
One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."—Ed.
I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret