The stream-like windings of that glorious street—
An eager Novice robed in fluttering gown!
Wordsworth's love for his own university of Cambridge was strong; and he has commemorated St. John's College, as well as King's, and Trinity, in The Prelude (book iii. ll. 4, 46, 53, etc.): but the enthusiasm, expressed in this Sonnet, for "the spires of Oxford," and
The stream-like windings of that glorious street,
(High Street), and "the long avenue" (Broad Walk) was both natural and generous.—Ed.
OXFORD, MAY 30, 1820
Composed 1820.—Published 1820
One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."—Ed.