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''"Poor Susan"'' is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth composed at Alfoxden in 1797. It was first published in the collection ''Lyrical Ballads'' in 1798. It is written in anapestic tetrameter. The poem records the memories awakened in a country girl in London on hearing a thrush sing in the early morning. == Text == At the corner of Wood-Street, when day-light appears, There's a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years. Poor Susan has pass'd by the spot and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. 'Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, Down which she so often has tripp'd with her pail, And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's, The only one dwelling on earth that she loves. She looks, and her heart is in Heaven, but they fade, The mist and the river, the hill and the shade; The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, And the colours have all pass'd away from her eyes. Poor Outcast! return—to receive thee once more The house of thy Father will open its door, And thou once again, in thy plain russet gown, Mayst hear the thrush sing from a tree of its own. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poor Susan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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