High waving heather, 'neath stormy blasts bending, Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars; Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending, Earth rising to heaven and heaven descending, Man's spirit away from its drear dongeon sending, Bursting the fetters and breaking the bars. All down the mountain sides, wild forest lending One mighty voice to the life-giving wind; Rivers their banks in the jubilee rending, Fast through the valleys a reckless course wending, Wider and deeper their waters extending, Leaving a desolate desert behind. Shining and lowering and swelling and dying, Changing for ever from midnight to noon; Roaring like thunder, like soft music sighing, Shadows on shadows advancing and flying, Lightning-bright flashes the deep gloom defying, Coming as swiftly and fading as soon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ROSE'S MESSAGE by MARY WINCHESTER ABBOTT REMINISCENCE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH MYSELF by HARRIET ELLEN (GRANNIS) AREY THE FLIGHT OF THE WAR-EAGLE by OBADIAH CYRUS AURINGER PSALM 8; AUGUST 14, 1653 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG OF THE TRANSFORMATION by THOMAS CAMPION |