Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL


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First Line: Ye mountains, that far off lift up your heads
Last Line: O brother-heart, with thee my spirit warms!
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 9
Subject(s): Green Mountains, Vermont


YE mountains, that far off lift up your heads,
Seen dimly through their canopies of blue,
The shade of my unrestful spirit sheds
Distance-created beauty over you;
I am not well content with this far view;
How may I know what foot of loved one treads
Your rocks moss-grown and sun-dried torrent beds?
We should love all things better, if we knew
What claims the meanest have upon our hearts;
Perchance even now some eye, that would be bright
To meet my own, looks on your mist-robed forms;
Perchance your grandeur a deep joy imparts
To souls that have encircled mine with light, --
O brother-heart, with thee my spirit warms!





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