[DV] The title in the first edition of 1820 was "To ——."—Ed.
[DW] The Hamadryads were supposed not only to haunt the trees, but to live in them, and to die with them.—Ed.
SEPTEMBER, 1819
Composed 1819.—Published 1820
One of the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection."—Ed.
The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields
Are hung, as if with golden shields,
Bright trophies of the sun!
Like a fair sister of the sky,