Places and Men by William Allingham

In Sussex here, by shingle and by sand, 

Flat fields and farmsteads in their wind-blown trees, 

The shallow tide-wave courses to the land, 

And all along the down a fringe one sees 

Of ducal woods. That 'dim discovered spire' 

Is Chichester, where Collins felt a fire 

Touch his sad lips; thatched Felpham roofs are these, 

Where happy Blake found heaven more close at hand. 

Goodwood and Arundel possess their lords, 

Successive in the towers and groves, which stay; 

These two poor men, by some right of their own, 

Possessed the earth and sea, the sun and moon, 

The inner sweet of life; and put in words 

A personal force that doth not pass away.