Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAUTERBRUNNEN, by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON First Line: A lowly hut, stone piled and redly stained Last Line: Gracing their simple lives with natural piety. Subject(s): Alps; Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) | ||||||||
I. A LOWLY hut, stone piled and redly stained With all of accident cold years have brought; A mother and her child in silent thought Sitting beside the river scarce contained From kissing with its gray and brattling foam Their feet, where monstrous over their lone home Yon awful Alp in battlemented wall Rears his sad forehead, from whose piny crest The torrent springs to light and happier life! It spurns the cloud where the unheeded call Of birds is joyous mid the blinding strife Of avalanches in the still deep noon, Veiling the pines, and the convulsed tune Of gray streams hushing in their arrowy fall. II. A temple for the Father, which his hand Hath reared for these his lowliest worshippers, Arched with Heaven's sapphire and with whispering firs, Garnishing these walls sublime which ever stand With many-colored shape of column fair, And granite peak dim in the glittering air! A lowly flock who need no pealing swell Of choristers within quaint minster aisles, Where God hath shamed all boastful human piles, And whose cloud swings their awful Sabbath bell; While silently they bow the thankful eye, And kneel to Him whose hymn is there so well Sung by his torrents leaping from the sky; Thus live they, shut as in a holy cell, Gracing their simple lives with natural piety. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS by HAYDEN CARRUTH GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU by HAYDEN CARRUTH BEVERLY SHORE IN WINTER by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON |
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