I SEE before me now a travelling army halting, Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer, Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high, Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen, The numerous camp-fires scattered near and far, some away up on the mountain, The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering, And over all the sky -- the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A,B,C by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY ONCE BY THE PACIFIC by ROBERT FROST SORROW by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE HOME by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA THE FIRST SNOWFALL by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE ROSARY by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS BETROTHED ANEW by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN |