Behold how Almias-cliff and Bilborough's brow Mark with huge bounds the spacious plain below! Dauntless, on that, the rocky turrets frown, This the tall ash adorns with cheerful crown; There the rough rocks in terrors grim are dress'd, Here the smooth hill displays a verdant crest; That height, like @3Atlas@1, seems to prop the skies, But this beneath @3Herculean@1 shoulders lies; This, as a cell or grove, contracts the gaze, That, as a goal, his head from far displays; There @3Pelion@1 on @3Ossa@1 heaves amain, Here some sweet nymph of @3Pindus@1 leads her train. The steep, the rough, the difficult, are there; Here all is sloping, gentle, soft and fair. But Nature doth both characters display In @3Fairfax@1, whom with awe they both obey, And, as his car rolls by, alike do feel The impartial touch of his triumphant wheel. Stern to the foe, and mild to him that yields, His habits drawn from his paternal fields; Here, with a woody strait between, one sees The Pillars (in the North) of @3Hercules@1; Or rather, since their bow'd tops thus agree, Let them, @3Maria@1, thy @3Parnassus@1 be! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONTENTMENT, AFTER THE MANNER OF HORACE by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY BREST LEFT BEHIND by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR SONNET: FOR INSPIRATION by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI THE ROSY BOSOM'D HOURS by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE GLORY OF WOMEN by SIEGFRIED SASSOON EMIGRATION by LISA DOMINGUEZ ABRAHAM |