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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ALPS Matches Found: 133 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEMORY OF INTERLAKEN, by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS Poem Text First Line: There is a light in darkness which the soul Last Line: Circling in music over you white brows. Subject(s): Alps; Interlachen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A WALK IN CHAMOUNI, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Together on the valley, white and sweet Last Line: One neither of supremacy nor rest? Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ADVANCE - COME FORTH FROM THY TYROLEAN GROUND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Here, there, and in all places at one hour Subject(s): Alps ALPINE HEIGHTS, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On alpine heights the love of god is shed Last Line: On alpine heights a loving father dwells. Variant Title(s): Mountain And Valley Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss ALPINE SONNETS 1: THE GLACIER, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn in silence moves the mighty stream Last Line: Of sovereign love, and song began to flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ALPINE SONNETS 2: THE SNOW-FIELD, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White death had laid his pall upon the plain Last Line: To cheer my pilgrim-heart no more alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ALPINE SONNETS 3: MOVING BELLS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair Last Line: That wander far among the sleeping hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Alps; Bells; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ALPINE SPIRIT'S SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the snow, through the air, to the mountain Last Line: Earth beneath, and stars above. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips ALPINE VILLAGE, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW Poem Source First Line: Their world stands all on end; no place at all Subject(s): Alps; Mountains ALPS IN SUMMER, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garland I will weave of mountain flowers Subject(s): Alps; Mountains ALPS IN WINTER, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once more, world of whiteness ... Of snow Subject(s): Alps; Mountains AN ALPINE DESCENT, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mule refreshed, his bells Last Line: "along this path to conquer at marengo." Subject(s): Alps; Marengo, Battle Of; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AN ALPINE PICTURE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand here and look, and softly hold your breath Last Line: Or is it but the frost-work on the pane? Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss AT THE CONVENT NEAR SAINT GALL, by JAMES COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: How sweet that valley, clothed in freshest green Last Line: Lamenting over creatures so forlorn. Variant Title(s): Written At The Convent Near Saint Gall Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gall, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AT VALLOMBROSA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vallombrosa - I longed in thy shadiest wood' Last Line: To the fountain whence time and eternity flow. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BELOW THE HEIGHTS, by WALTER HERRIES POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: I sat at berne, and watched the chain Last Line: The rose so quickly faded. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BEYOND, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger wandering in the switzer's land Last Line: Lieth thine italy. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss BODENSEE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sweet, oh soft, this interbreathing space Subject(s): Alps; Mountains BOY OF THE ALPS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly, alpine rover %tread the mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Alps; Mountains BRUNNEN, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the princely towers of berne Last Line: With their country's rights to die. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Alps; Brunnen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BY THE ROSANNA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old grey alp has caught the cloud Last Line: And tops it in a silver fountain. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CHAMOUNY AT SUNRISE, by FRIEDERIKE BRUNN Poem Source First Line: From the deep shadow of the silent fir-grove Subject(s): Alps; Mountains COMING OF MONT BLANC, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Running along the high level Subject(s): Alps; Mountains DISTANT ALPS, by FLORENCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: But I must leave thee, italy! Today Subject(s): Alps; Mountains EDELWEISS, by WARREN PEASE Poem Text First Line: Child of the snowdrift and the storm! Last Line: Is baby madeleine. Subject(s): Alps; Babies; Children; Edelweiss; Mountains; Infants; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EIGER, MONCH, AND JUNGFRAU, by NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more of cities, with their proud cathedrals Last Line: Rimmed as with sculptured silver, sweet chartreuse. Variant Title(s): The Chartreuse On The Lake Of Thun Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Thun (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EINSIEDELN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid savage rocks, and seas of snow that shine Last Line: In mute devotion on the thankful breast! Subject(s): Alps; Einsiedeln, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EPISTLE TO ALBERT DEW-SMITH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Figure me to yourself, I pray Last Line: Smoke with an unperturbed mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EVENING AMONG THE ALPS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft skies of italy! How richly drest Last Line: And roves the alpine gale o'er solitudes afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the sunset tree! Last Line: And the reaper's work is done! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tyrol, Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain) FANCIES IN THE FIRELIGHT, IN THE CONVENT OF SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, it is a joy to gaze Last Line: Dona eis requiem! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) GOLDAU, by JOHN NEAL Poem Text First Line: An everlasting hill was torn Last Line: His desolation mocks the skies. Subject(s): Alps; Goldau, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HYMN TO MONT BLANC [IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star Last Line: Earth with her thousand voices, praises god. Variant Title(s): Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni;chamouny;mont Blanc Before Sunrise;hymn Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni Subject(s): Alps; Blanc, Mont; Chamonix, France; God; Mountains; Religion; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology HYMN WRITTEN AMONG THE ALPS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creation's god! With thought elate Last Line: Thee, thee, my god, I trace! Subject(s): Alps; Hymns (as Literary Form); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN AMPEZZO, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only once more and not again - the larches Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN AMPEZZO, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only once more and not again - the larches Last Line: I pickled this little - in my hand that trembles - %parcel of columbines Subject(s): Alps; Mountains IN LANDS I NEVER SAW, THEY SAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon an august day? Subject(s): Alps IN SUMMER WHEN THE VALES ARE CLEAR, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Ye, everlasting summits, do abide in sun! Subject(s): Weather; Alps; Valleys IN THE ALPS, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who first beholds those everlasting clouds Last Line: At the first glimpses of fair italy. Variant Title(s): The Alps Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN THE PASS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across my road a mountain rose of rock Last Line: Who do not know the secret of the pass. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Variant Title(s): The Pass Of Ampezzo Subject(s): Alps; Ampezzo, Austria; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN THE SIMPLON PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood Last Line: Of love in the heart made more happy by tears? Variant Title(s): Stanzas Composed In The Simplon Pass Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN THE ST. GOTTHARDT PASS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm which shook the silence of the hills Last Line: They kiss high heaven in all embracing light. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain) JANUARY IN THE TREMEZZINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day / as if in may Last Line: In a sweet retreat on the larian lake? Subject(s): Alps; January; Lakes; Mountains; Peace; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) JUNGFRAU, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin-mountain, wearing like a queen Last Line: Deafening the region in his ireful mood. Variant Title(s): The Jungfrau And The Fall Of The Rhine Near Schaffhausen Subject(s): Alps; Jungfrau (mountain), Switzerland; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) L'INGLESE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walpole, traveling in the alps Last Line: They, milord upon their backs Subject(s): Alps; Mountains LAKE LEMAN AND CHILLON, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the old genevan wharf she lay Last Line: By a guest with a bad digestion! Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LAKE URI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From such romantic dreams, my soul, awake! Last Line: To pilgrims overcome by summer's heat. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Uri (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LAUTERBRUNNEN, by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON Poem Text First Line: A lowly hut, stone piled and redly stained Last Line: Gracing their simple lives with natural piety. Subject(s): Alps; Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LAUTERBRUNNEN, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the hillside, where still their cottage Subject(s): Alps; Mountains LINES SUGGESTED BY THE STATUE OF ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED STANZ-UNTERWALDEN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inspiring and romantic switzer's land Last Line: The martyr winkelried's immortal name! Variant Title(s): Lines Suggested By The Statue Of Arnold Von Winkelried Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Stanz, Switzerland; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Hills; Downs (great Britain) LUCERNE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shores of lucerne! Where many a winding bay Last Line: "a deep, deep sigh, ""avenge, o god, their cause!" Subject(s): Alps; Lucerne, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LUCERNE, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet there is / within an eagle's flight Last Line: Why should it ever die? Subject(s): Alps; Lucerne, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MANFRED, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Projected from the bilious childe Last Line: An after-dinner's indigest. Subject(s): Alps; Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MANFRED; A DRAMATIC POEM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp must be replenished, but even then Last Line: He's gone, his soul hath taken its earthless flight; %whither? I dread to think; but he is gone Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Alps; Coliseum, Rome; Immortality; Mountains MATTERHORN QUESTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As men essay the matterhorn Last Line: Bids them to climb and do their best. Subject(s): Alps; Labor & Laborers; Mountains; Pain; Soul; Work; Workers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery MIDNIGHT AT GENEVA, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The azure lake is argent now Last Line: To the long-sighed-for smile. Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MONCH AND JUNGFRAU, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG Poem Text First Line: From a lofty alpine summit look down Last Line: And they who join in the chorus are surely of heavenly birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius Variant Title(s): Switzerland Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss MONT BLANC, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here rest, my soul, from meteor dreams Last Line: Rise then, -- to heaven! Variant Title(s): The Alps Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MONT BLANC AT SUNSET, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas late - the sun had almost shone Last Line: To walk unstained the elysian shade! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Lake Of Geneva Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MONT BLANC REVISITED, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O mount beloved! Mine eyes again Subject(s): Alps; Mountains MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting universe of things Last Line: Silence and solitude were vacancy? Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Sleep; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips MORAT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above me are the alps Last Line: Making kings' rights divine, by some draconic clause. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Murten, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Morat, Switzerland MOUNT RIGHI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meek virgin mother, more benign Last Line: Sufficient for the wise. Variant Title(s): Our Lady Of The Snow Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neath an uncertain moon, in light malign Subject(s): Alps; Mountains MOUNTAINEER AND POET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simple goatherd between alp and sky Last Line: Nor bright because god's glory shines for you. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MY ALPENSTOCK, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Best of artists! Mark for me Last Line: That my legs are no small beer. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss NORDIC, by JOEL ELIAS SPINGARN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rainbows and stardust found no room Last Line: "has cradled you as well as me." Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rainbows; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON A FLOWER FROM THE FIELD OF GRUTLI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence art thou, flower? From holy ground Last Line: Which all high thoughts obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alps; Grutli, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the bleak pass huge alps their shadows throw Last Line: Pure as yon snow that cleaves the vault of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON HEARING THE RANZ DES VACHES ON THE TOP OF THE PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listen - but no faculty of mine Last Line: And joys of distant home my heart enchain. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON THE RIGHI, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the righi kulm we stood Last Line: Till we climb to heaven again! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Righi, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OUR LIVES ARE SWISS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forever intervene! Subject(s): Alps PHANTASY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a temple of the toes Last Line: The song of sevilla's barber. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips PUNICA: HANNIBAL'S PASSAGE OF THE ALPS, by TIBERIUS CATIUS ASCONIUS SILIUS ITALICUS Poem Source First Line: But now, the o'erhanging alps ... Near Subject(s): Alps; Hannibal (247-183 B.c.); Mountains; Punic Wars (carthage And Rome) RUTLI, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the lake's left bank Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Mountains SAINT GOTHARD PASS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the edge of the chasm is a slippery track Last Line: He gilds it always, he warms it not. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Variant Title(s): Song Of The Alps Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SIMMENTHAL, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off the old snows ever new Last Line: The imperishable child. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Simmenthal, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SNOW VISITS MAGGIORE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luckily the sun isn't out and the snow Last Line: Be many a body bereft of its soul! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Snow; Winter; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SOLOTHURN, by HEINRICH VON LAUFENBERG Poem Text First Line: Where, below the steep of jura Last Line: Print of satan's fingers ten. Variant Title(s): Saint Verena Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Soleure, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Solothurn, Switzerland SONG OF AN ALPINE GUIDE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On zurich's spires, with rosy light Last Line: Around me their great requiem. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONG ON SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, it is a pleasure rare Last Line: Floats in triumph o'er the crag! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONGS OF LUCERNE, SELS., by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Mountains SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 1., by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of her whose face, and lofty name Last Line: Toward him spurring over bosworth field. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Alps; Daughters; Death; England; Mountains; Dead, The; English; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SOUTHERN ALPS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the roofs at break of day Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Alps; Mountains SPRING IN THE ALPS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are at their bacchanals Last Line: Between the earth and sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Spring; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ST. MARTIN'S WALL, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG Poem Text First Line: Welcome, ye hearts of tyrol, which beat Last Line: To stir a quicker heart-beat in every tyrolese! Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tyrol, Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STANZ, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature's bulwarks, built by time Last Line: With her children scattered round. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Stanz, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STORIED SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weary traveler, who, all night long Last Line: His weak steps slide, he shrieks, he sinks -- he dies! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Alps; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STORM ON SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heaven, it is a fearful thing Last Line: Melt out the music of my lyre. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SURENEN PASS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the surenen's fearful mountain pass Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Mountains SWITZERLAND AND ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the switzer's varied land Last Line: Unscathed, for art is not of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss TELL AND HIS SON AT ALTDORF, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a charm about them - that's ... Truth Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Mountains TELL OF ALTORF, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks no crown he needed Subject(s): Alps; Mountains THE ALPINE SHEPHERD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In scenery sublime and rude Last Line: Far from his native mountain-home. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE ALPS, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: E'en now, where alpine solitudes ascend Last Line: Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE ALPS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains of this glorious land Last Line: What my offence hath been. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE ALPS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've roamed amongst the eternal alps Last Line: Thus hecla, etna feel; and all, save ye, around. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE ALPS AT DAYBREAK, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunbeams streak the azure skies Last Line: Perched, like an eagle's nest, on high. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE ALPS; SEEN FROM MARENGO, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glory of a cloud -- without its wane Last Line: Untainted by his lifeuntrusted with his grave? Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In july, when the bees swarmed thick Last Line: But where the austrian rabble fled a thunder-storm rolled black. Variant Title(s): The Death Of Winkelried Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Sempach, Battle Of (1386); Switzerland - Wars; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Sempach, Switzerland THE CASTLE OF CHILLON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lake, thy lovely and thy haunted shore Last Line: The heart thy fuel, and the grave thy shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CHAMOIS HUNTERS, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away to the alps Last Line: The wild hunters sleep. Subject(s): Alps; Chamois; Hunting; Mountains; Hunters; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, SEEN FROM THE LAKE OF LUGANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sacred pile! Whose turrets rise Last Line: Of fatal austrian spears. Subject(s): Alps; Churches; Lugano (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Tell, William; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Cathedrals; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE COL DE BALM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunshine and silence on the col de balm Last Line: In the deep calm of love and everlasting light? Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CRYSTAL HUNTERS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er mountains bright with snow and light Last Line: O'er mountains bright, etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss THE DISTANT ALPS, by FLORENCE SMITH Poem Text First Line: But I must leave thee, italy! Today Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE FALL OF THE AAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the fierce aspect of this river Last Line: These humbler adorations will receive. Subject(s): Alps; Handeck (falls), Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LAKE AT ZURICH, by JAMES COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: Richmond, dost thou remember rapperschwyl Last Line: Nor is of eden feelings all bereft. Variant Title(s): On The Lake Of Zurich Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LAKE OF CONSTANCE, by GUSTAVE SCHWAB Poem Text First Line: The horseman rides in the valley's glow Last Line: A grave on the shore of the lake he found. Variant Title(s): The Horseman And The Lake Of Constance Subject(s): Alps; Constance (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LAKE OF GENEVA, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain then, clad with eternal snow Last Line: Licks from their cloudy magazine the snows. Variant Title(s): Switzerland Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss THE LAKE OF ZURICH, by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the majesty of all thy works Last Line: Elysium all the vale. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MONASTERY OF MARIA EINSIEDELN, by JAMES COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: Twas eventide in summer's glorious prime Last Line: Before me thus, all unexpected, brought! Variant Title(s): On First Seeing The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln Subject(s): Alps; Einsiedeln, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MOUNTAIN BOY, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd of the alps am I Last Line: The mountain boy am I! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MOUNTAINS OF BERNE, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I turn the pages and recall Last Line: The colors which the soul holds fast! Variant Title(s): A Swiss Guide-book Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss THE PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ST. GOTHARD. TO MY CHILDREN, by GEORGIANA (SPENCER) CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye plains, where threefold harvests press the ground Last Line: And more -- o transport! -- reach its home and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Devonshire, Duchess Of Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE PATRIOT ENGINEER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs! May I shake your hands? Last Line: The glory freedom radiates! Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE PEASANT OF THE ALPS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where cliffs arise by winter crown'd Last Line: And love and happiness are mine no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Alps; Avalanches; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE PRELUDE: BOOK 6. CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves were fading when to esthwaite's banks Last Line: Spread round my steps like sunshine o'er green fields. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE ROAD TO APPENZELL, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green sunny road that skirts the foot Last Line: The yellow-coated pumpkins grow! Subject(s): Alps; Appenzell, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE STYRIAN ALPS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In steyermark, green steyermark Last Line: In the beechen groves of steyermark. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Variant Title(s): Steyermark Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THEODORIC, SELS., by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alps; Mountains THROUGH ALPINE GATES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, sweet it was, when, from that bleak abode Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Alps; Mountains TO A FLOWER ON THE SKIRTS OF MONT BLANC, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With heart not yet half rested ... Mont blanc Subject(s): Alps; Mountains TO MRS. MACMARLAND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Im schnee der alpen - so it runs Last Line: The ashes of a bad cigar. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO THE RIVER ARVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the sands or cloven rocks Last Line: Among the blossoms at their feet. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO THE RIVER TRAUN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is in a mountain mood Last Line: Have sat beside the banks of traun. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Trapping; Traun (river), Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TANZBODELI, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a rock that juts above the lauterbrunnen valley Last Line: Forming a circle, dancetill the mountains too wheel round us. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tanzbodeli (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UNTERWALDEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now couch thyself where, heard with fear afar Last Line: Shouts from the echoing hills with savage joy. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Unterwalden, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) VISION OF MONT BLANC, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dying at last of these splendors away Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Alps; Mountains WILLIAM TELL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chains may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee Last Line: For the great work to set thy country free. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss WILLIAM TELL, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smile-dimpled lake woo'd to bathe in its deep Last Line: [music, and the curtain falls.] Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Freedom; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss WRITTEN AMONG THE BASSES ALPS, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you in heaven no hope -- on earth no care Last Line: Breathe in this human dust its living soul. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ZENITH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We watched the gradual rising of a star Last Line: Beneath the king's own smile, -- perpetual zenith thine. Subject(s): Alps; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mountains; Night; Stars; Nativity, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime |
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