Gaze forth where Herbert loved to gaze, Far to the horizon's purple edge, Here swimming in a gauzy haze, There bright with splintered cliff and ledge. It is a vision beautiful -- A dream of wonder and delight, Where ridge on ridge of mountain peaks Gleam out, then fade away from sight. Beneath sleeps Greenwood's placid lake, Woods, meadow, pasture, stream, and plain, White villages like sea-bird wings, Broad corn-fields and expanse of grain; Fair scenes so dear to poet's heart, Dear to the painter's glorious art. Gaze and admire! Far off to right Swell highland Hudson's azure hills. Famed Anthony uplifts his bluff, Channel'd and seamed with dashing rills. Across yon rocky-cradled vale Soars Shawangunk's mountainous ridge; High, high in air those summits sail, The Kaatskill's forest bridge! "And ne'er in life," wrote Herbert's pen, "Have I such lovely landscape viewed;" The pure lake cradled in the glen, Reflecting the o'erhanging wood. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PATRIOT; AN OLD STORY by ROBERT BROWNING BEPPO: A VENETIAN STORY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON AGAINST THEM WHO LAY UNCHASTITY TO THE SEX OF WOMAN by WILLIAM HABINGTON THE UNKNOWN GOD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |