AT CROW'S NEST PASS the mountains rend Themselves apart, the rivers wend A lawless course about their feet, And breaking into torrents beat In useless fury where they blend At Crow's Nest Pass. The nesting eagle, wise, discreet, Wings up the gorge's lone retreat And makes some barren crag her friend At Crow's Nest Pass. Uncertain clouds, half-high, suspend Their shifting vapours, and contend With rocks that suffer not defeat; And snows, and suns, and mad winds meet To battle where the cliffs defend At Crow's Nest Pass. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON PARTING by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ASPECTS OF THE PINES by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE THE JACQUERIE: SONG. THE HOUND by SIDNEY LANIER HE FELL AMONG THIEVES by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT VITAI LAMPADA by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS HOOD by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS LOVE AND SLEEP by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |