[DU] See the Phædon of Plato, by which this Sonnet was suggested.—W. W. 1819.
THE HAUNTED TREE[DV]
To ——
Composed 1819.—Published 1820
[This tree grew in the park of Rydal, and I have often listened to its creaking as described.—I. F.]
One of the "Poems of the Imagination."—Ed.
Those silver clouds collected round the sun
His mid-day warmth abate not, seeming less
To overshade than multiply his beams
By soft reflection—grateful to the sky,