To Lady Eleanor Butler and the Honourable Miss Ponsonby
To Lady Eleanor Butler and the Honourable Miss Ponsonby - fact Summary
About the Ladies of Llangollen
This short address by Wordsworth honors Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the Ladies of Llangollen, celebrating their long shared life in a secluded cottage on the River Dee. The poem links their friendship to nature and spiritual repose, renaming the vale as a place of sanctity and lasting affection. Wordsworth frames their unconventional domestic devotion as elevated, timeless, and in harmony with a tranquil landscape.
Read Complete AnalysesA stream to mingle with your favorite Dee Along the Vale of Meditation flows; So styled by those fierce Britons, pleased to see In Nature's face the expression of repose, Or, haply there some pious Hermit chose To live and die -- the peace of Heaven his aim, To whome the wild sequestered region owes At this late day, its sanctifying name. Glyn Cafaillgaroch, in the Cambrian tongue, In ourse the Vale of Friendship, let this spot Be nam'd, where faithful to a low roof'd Cot On Deva's banks, ye have abode so long, Sisters in love, a love allowed to climb Ev'n on this earth, above the reach of time.
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