[168] Compare the poem To the Daisy (1802), beginning—
Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere.
Ed.
THE WIDOW ON WINDERMERE SIDE
Published 1842
[The facts recorded in this Poem were given me, and the character of the person described, by my friend the Rev. R. P. Graves,[169] who has long officiated as curate at Bowness, to the great benefit of the parish and neighbourhood. The individual was well known to him. She died before these verses were composed. It is scarcely worth while to notice that the stanzas are written in the sonnet form, which was adopted when I thought the matter might be included in twenty-eight lines.—I.F.]
One of the “Poems founded on the Affections.”—Ed.
I
How beautiful when up a lofty height
Honour ascends among the humblest poor,