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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 life—untrusted 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, dance—till 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