Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ALPINE SHEPHERD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In scenery sublime and rude Last Line: Far from his native mountain-home. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain) | ||||||||
IN scenery sublime and rude, In wild romantic solitude, Where awful summits crowned with snow, In soft and varied colours glow; There, in some grassy sheltered spot, The Alpine shepherd forms his cot; And there, beside his peaceful home, The fairest mountain-flowerets bloom; There oft his playful children climb The rock fantastic and sublime, And cull the mantling shrubs that creep, And sweetly blossom o'er the steep. 'Tis his to mark the morning ray, Upon the glittering scenery play; To watch the purple evening shade, In sweet and mellow tinges fade; And hail the sun's departing smile, That beams upon the hills a while: And oft, at moonlight hour serene, He wanders through the shadowy scene: And then his pipe with plaintive sound Awakes the mountain-echoes round. How dear to him the sheltered spot, The waving pines that shade his cot; His pastoral music wild and gay, May charm his simple cares away; And never will he sigh to roam, Far from his native mountain-home. | 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 A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
|