Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all The little lesser hills which compass thee, Thou standest, bright with April's buoyancy, Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall Of stern, steep rock; and startled by the call Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy And cast a cloud of crimson, silently, Above thy snowy crevices where fall Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath Melts at their phantom touch. Another year Is quick with import. Such each year has been. Unmoved thou watchest all, and all bequeath Some jewel to thy diadem of power, Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RAHEL TO VARNHAGEN by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON NOCTURNAL SKETCH; BLANK VERSE IN RHYME by THOMAS HOOD PELTERS OF PYRAMIDS by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE MUSIC IN THE NIGHT by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD THE STORK by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM |