Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UP ON THE MOUNTAIN, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD


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First Line: Up on the mountain, where nobody comes
Last Line: "and the wild bee hums --"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


UP on the mountain, where nobody comes,
(But the wild wind walks, and the wild bee hums,) --

Up on the mountain, where nobody spies,
But the shy ones, the swift ones, soft-footed and wise, --

There in the singing and coolness and height,
With the thrush-voice all day and the brook-voice all night, --

There will I wander, and there will I rest,
As a deer in the fern, as a bird in the nest.

Far from the faces that stare and are blind;
From the cold hidden heart, and the cold crooked mind, --

Up on the mountain where nobody sees,
I will sleep like a leaf of the green simple trees.

I will fold in my heart all my wonder, and sleep,
While the white stars drift, and the white hours creep.

-- And far from the wind and the stars and the hill
I will wake in the hot nights and smile and lie still,

As I feel on my eye-lids the hands of the night,
Like an echo of leaf-song, a star's straying light.

Oh, under the labor and blindness and heat
Shall be music to lure me and lighten my feet, --

Beating,
"Up on the mountain, where nobody comes, --
But the wild wind walks, and the wild bee hums, --
And the wild bee hums --"





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