Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREEN MOUNTAIN, by JOHN WEISS First Line: With jocund friends the island's mount I climb Last Line: He's comrade still of all the happy scene. Subject(s): Mount Desert, Maine | ||||||||
WITH jocund friends the island's mount I climb To kindred gladness that, beyond the wood Whose pines are heavy with the solitude, Sacks all the space of sea and sky sublime. Rocks, left austere by winter, laugh again With sweet and happy hearts at summer-tide; O'er cliff and ledge and wave goes laughter wide, As o'er the sea noon's pelting silver rain. A flock of little sails below appears To forage all along the shining waste; Now huddled, and now scattering, without haste, For morning waifs, like sea-birds, each one steers. Of all the sails that catch the sun, and smile, There's one that takes my own mood out to sea: Its laughing side is hidden on the lee; Its shadow tacks to windward all the while. Mid all the gladness, just a faint reserve Wafts me apart, but not to scowl and gloom; The world's wide laughter keeps me in its room, -- My shadow is not sharp enough to swerve. 'T is but the thickness of a sail between. A cloud has caught its buoyant, gilded woof, Too thin to keep the sailor's heart aloof: He's comrade still of all the happy scene. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WINTER SONG by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE SEA AND THE SKYLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 119 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DRUM TAPS TO HEAVEN by JAMES CHURCH ALVORD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 47. AL-HAKIM by EDWIN ARNOLD A VOICE FOR EDWARD by GLEN BLANCH THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1620-1920: 2. STRUGGLE by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN A LOVER, ON AN ACCIDENT NECESSITATING DEPARTURE, CONSULTS WITH REASON by THOMAS CAREW |
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