At the Head of Glencroe. Doubling and doubling with laborious walk, Who, that has gained at length the wished-for Height, This brief, this simple wayside Call can slight, And rests not thankful? Whether cheered by talk With some loved friend, or by the unseen hawk Whistling to clouds and sky-born streams, that shine At the sun's outbreak, as with light divine, Ere they descend to nourish root and stalk Of valley flowers. Nor, while the limbs repose, Will we forget that, as the fowl can keep Absolute stillness, poised aloft in air, And fishes front, unmoved, the torrent's sweep,''" So may the Soul, through powers that Faith bestows, Win rest, and ease, and peace, with bliss that Angels share. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 28 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE. 6. IN THE CEMETERY by THOMAS HARDY OF HIS CONVERSION by WILLIAM ALABASTER IN ENVY OF COWS by JOSEPH AUSLANDER NEW YORK HARBOR by PARK BENJAMIN TIME'S SHADOW by MATHILDE BLIND SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 121 by BLISS CARMAN LINES WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT DURING A THUNDER-STORM by ELIZABETH CARTER |