I Travelled Among Unknown Men - Wordsworth

This is our next "lucy" poem. 
 

The lucy poems deal with death and the emotions surrounding death. In this poem, Wordsworth connects his homesick feeling about England to his love for a woman who died.
 

As Wordsworth put it in a letter to a friend "... a great poet out... to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings, to give them new compositions of feeling, to render their feelings more san pure and permanent."
 

In this poem and all the Lucy Poems, Wordsworth accomplishes this.

by William Wordworth

I travelled among unknown men,
 In lands beyond the sea;
 Nor, England! did I know till then
 What love I bore to thee.
 
 'Tis past, that melancholy dream!
 Nor will I quit thy shore
 A second time; for still I seem
 To love thee more and more.
 
 Among thy mountains did I feel
 The joy of my desire;
 And she I cherished turned her wheel
 Beside an English fire.
 
 Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed,
 The bowers where Lucy played;
 And thine too is the last green field
 That Lucy's eyes surveyed.