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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 2:00 A.M., by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She awoke in the night and thought about dying
Last Line: And go back to sleep
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


3, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bats swallow my shadow
Last Line: My hand on the horizon %of its tail the scaly sieve
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fights; Mist; Mountains; Sea


7 A.M. - LATE NOVEMBER, by BEN L. HIATT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


A BEAR FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wunzt, 'way west in illinoise
Last Line: Ferever an' ferever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A FOUNTAIN, A BOTTLE, A DONKEY€™S EARS, AND SOME BOOKS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old davis owned a solid mica mountain
Last Line: In time she would be rid of all her books
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A HILL SONG, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hills where once my love and I
Last Line: You have lost your oread.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A HOLY HILL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still: be still: nor dare
Last Line: The wrath of stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A LITTLE POCKET, by NINA MANLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a little pocket in the hills!
Last Line: I know a little pocket in the hills! --
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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 MESSAGE TO MICHAEL, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we had found that there is no way to the white mountain
Last Line: Their distance is the span of what we are.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN FACING A MOUNTAIN (2), by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What poetry demands is worse
Subject(s): Mountains


A MOUNTAIN FANCY; INSCRIBED TO MRS. R.S. STORRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close to each mountain's towering peak
Last Line: Dissolves in tender mists of prayer!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN GATEWAY, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a vale where I would go one day
Last Line: The unworn ritual of eternal things.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN LODGE, by DOROTHY A. KROGMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nestling amid the verdant steep
Last Line: You know protection's care.
Subject(s): Houses; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN PICTURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat within the cabin old
Last Line: By mountain walls surrounded.
Subject(s): Country Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN ROAD, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Capriciously it wound about
Last Line: In wealth of scents and roses.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


A MOUNTAIN STATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought a run a while ago
Last Line: For sale! A mountain station.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cattle; Mountains; Rivers; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN VIEW, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No loneliness can come in wood or fell
Last Line: Stilly moves the wilding heart in passion there.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


A MOUNTAIN WIND, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold limbs of the air
Last Line: Brother to grass and stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAINGRAVEYARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a sleeping-place is here!
Last Line: This still-shadowed burial ground.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Love; Mountains; Graveyards; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MYSTERY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river hemmed with leaning trees
Last Line: The hills of heaven arise.
Subject(s): Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 3. THE MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And measure not our mountain peaks
Last Line: And trace his signature in stone!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A RETURN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We turned back mad from the mystic
Last Line: But joy as an arctic sun went down.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SECOND TIME, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the year I cut logs for the new house and roads, roads like veins
Last Line: When they starved out and moved on, they burned their houses down to get the nails back
Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SECOND VIEW OF THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains! When next I saw ye it was noon
Last Line: Ye watched the ages of the world below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Climbing; Mountains; Seven Mountains (siebengebirge), Germany; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SNOW MOUNTAIN, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I make white enough my thought for thee
Last Line: Our only greatness is that we aspire.
Subject(s): Life; Mountains; Snow; White (color); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SONG OF THE HILLS AND MY FRIEND, by GEOFFREY DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are two things I long for
Last Line: Perhaps. I pray him so.
Subject(s): Friendship; God; Mountains; Oxford University; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SONG OF THE MARCHES, by LI TAI PO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tien-shan peaks still glisten
Last Line: May seek their homes again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A STRANGER MINSTREL; TO MRS. ROBINSON BEFORE HER DEATH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As late on skiddaw's mount I lay supine
Last Line: I would, I would that she were here!'
Subject(s): Mountains; Robinson, Mary (1758-1800); Skiddaw (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SUMMER SUNRISE; AFTER LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The master-hand whose pencils trace
Last Line: Go up to bless the new-born day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Mountains; Summer; Sunrise; World; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On stern blencathra's perilous height
Last Line: The things that seek the earth, how full of noise and riot!
Subject(s): Mountains; Saddleback (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A VISIT TO YUAN-CHIU IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth to sylvan retreats I went, a vagabond
Last Line: It was lucid day-break when I spoke of going.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


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)


ABANDONED ROAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wheel ruts scarred the bedrock here and there
Last Line: A road that leads to nowhere for no reason
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ABOUT WRITING AND PUBLISHING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's more to writing poetry than you think
Last Line: It might be better
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ABOVE HALF MOON, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not even a brid can sleep in thin air, a thousand feet higher
Last Line: Shuttered windows, a flower made of timber, whose trail down is a crooked stem
Subject(s): Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ABOVE ST. IRENEE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rested on the breezy height
Last Line: And left the lonely road to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ABOVE THE RIVER, HEAVY ON THE HEART, by SU SHIH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the river, heavy on the heart, thousandfold hills
Last Line: My hill friends will soon be sending poems to call me home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Variant Title(s): Above The River, Heavy On The Heart (1088)
Subject(s): Heaven; Mountains; Paintings And Painters; Yangzi River, China; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO LU MOUNTAIN, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straw sandals, cane of green bamboo
Last Line: My lu mountain poems are summed up in this
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Mountains


ADIRONDACK EVENING, by CHARD POWERS SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind the olive hills, the day fires wane
Last Line: The peace we left, and whither we return.
Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Evening; Sunset; Twilight


ADIRONDACK SOUNDS, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I put the words in his mouth
Last Line: I say to him paradise %and hear the pure word
Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Youth


AFTER FROST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The katydids and crickets had
Last Line: The judgment day
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AFTER HURRICANE HUGO, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm picking up wood from the lawn
Last Line: Where we slept
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AFTER MANY A GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After many a summer flies the swan
Last Line: Is still trying
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AFTERNOON ON A HILL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will be the gladdest thing
Last Line: And then start down!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AGAIN THE TREE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tree was chosen by the boy and dog
Last Line: Its lights are hope. Even the sad heart lifts!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AH, TENERIFFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'm kneeling — still
Subject(s): Mountains


ALASKAN MOUNTAIN POEM #1, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark branches / dark leaves
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALASKAN MOUNTAIN POEM #1, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark branches %dark leaves
Last Line: And the mountain %was gone
Subject(s): Mountains


ALDINGTON KNOLL; THE OLD SMUGGLER SPEAKS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Al'ington knoll it stands up high
Last Line: Cater the marsh and crost the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALL DAY, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ALMOST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had almost forgotten the smell of november
Last Line: But I had almost forgotten
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ALONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It twists my heart to walk alone
Last Line: Now pull my heart strings like a tether
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ALONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She stitched the remnants of her life
Last Line: And wondered why she'd never known
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ALPHABET FOR INSOMNIACS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I can't sleep
Last Line: Praise be!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ALPINE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About mountains it is useless to argue
Last Line: Like a rich man through the eye of a needle. %the mind has its own level to find
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Mountains


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


AMERICA WAS PROMISES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: America was promises
Last Line: America kept its promises to you
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AMONG THE HILLS, by W. B. HAUGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who would not live among the hills
Last Line: A picture by the master artist -- god?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AMONG THE HILLS, by ETHEL AMBLER HUNTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the valleys, where the slow, brown brooks
Last Line: The far horison, and the sunset light!
Subject(s): Mountains; Wellesley College; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AMONG THE HILLS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the roadside, like the flowers of gold
Last Line: With graces more abounding.
Variant Title(s): The Wife;sketches
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wander on the barren moors
Last Line: And breathes the humid air of death!
Subject(s): Mountains; Loss; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye trees! Whose slender roots entwine
Last Line: Appear to sight still more forlorn.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Convents; Mountains; Ruins; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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


AN HOUR OF IDLENESS; IN THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, by MARION CUMMINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To lie here prone, wholly at rest
Last Line: (I know the lore of fairies) on fern seed.
Subject(s): Nature; Santa Cruz Mountains, California


AN ODE TO A MOUNTAIN, by VIRGINIA LEPORIN LEACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: O age-old mountain tall and grand
Last Line: As pure and rugged, mount, as thine!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AN ODE WRITTEN IN THE PEAK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This while we are abroad
Last Line: The muse is still in ure.
Subject(s): Derbyshire, England; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ANCAPAGARI, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning of the tribe this name ancapagari was given to these
Last Line: Tongue. It is the name of the god who has come from among us
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ANCAPAGARI, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning of the tribe this name ancapagari was given to these
Last Line: Who has come from among us
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Mountains


ANCIENT CONVOLUTIONS, by ELAINE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Volcanic steepness
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond and yet beyond new beauty calls
Last Line: But oh, unsatisfied, there is no sea.
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Mountains; Sea; Seagulls; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


ANDES: 4-9 INCLUSIVE, by KERSTIN THOREK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountains rise higher than the castle of the condors
Last Line: Gravely the two men turn around
Subject(s): Explorers; Incas; Mountains; Peru; Travel


ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years have gone. It is spring
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years have gone. It is spring
Last Line: Of your death
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains


ANDREW RAN PAST ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Andrew ran past me yesterday
Last Line: I know that life is good, hard - got
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ANGEL WRESTLER (WITH BLOND WIG), by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They come and offer maize
Last Line: Rain, thee serenity of lack mountains
Subject(s): Mountains


ANNIVERSARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day approaches
Last Line: And I must grieve
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ANNIVERSARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The years slipped by as easily
Last Line: With a shared look and the word unspoken
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ANNUNCIATION, by GEORGES DUHAMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the tall mountain's brow
Last Line: And the man that it will crush.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ANTIQUE SHOP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is an attic air about the place
Last Line: The shrewd horse - trader gleam that's in her eye!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ANY QUESTIONS?, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who wound the clock that set the galaxies in
Last Line: Questions seek the unknown
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


APPALACHIAN SPRING, by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tuning fork on the mountain
Last Line: The april twilight's field of images was conjured up
Subject(s): Appalachia; Aviation And Aviators; Maryland; Mountains


APPLE TREES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smell of winter apples in a bin
Last Line: The red heartwood burned with a steady flame
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


APRIL CONVERSATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She pressed the seed in the april ground
Last Line: Who put the life in the little brown seed?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


APRIL FOOL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll always be an april kind of fool
Last Line: The world is young. A fool in april knows
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ARARAT, by JACK ANTREASSIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twin peaks of legend icons draped with snow
Subject(s): Ararat (mountain); Mountains


ARARAT, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall sleep-out together through the dark
Last Line: Whether those shores are habitable or no
Subject(s): Ararat (mountain); Mountains


ARRIVING AT BA GORGE IN THE MORNING, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daybreak in late spring, I embark at ba gorge
Last Line: Before the old joy of being in new mountains
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Mountains


ASCENT TO THE SIERRAS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising
Last Line: Against the wolf in men's hearts?
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ASCENT TO THE SIERRAS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising
Last Line: To make you bitter music; how else will you take bonds of the %future, against the wolf in men's hea
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


AT GUSU, by CHIAO-JAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ancient terrace now invisible
Last Line: At cold peak, a little heap of dirt
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


AT PINAFORE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ruffles and lace and furbelows
Last Line: Little girls have grown up, and the days are long
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AT SUNRISE ALONG THE AMERICAN RIVER, by WILLIAM HOWARTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vermilion %the road-cuts hold eyes
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


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 THE DARK BANQUET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the dark banquet, who shall be fed?
Last Line: The importunate living? The accusing dead?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AT THE PEAK OF BRIGHT SLEEP, by DIANE P. LANDO    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The path of most insistence
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AT THE SUPERMARKET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fields in a basket, glowing and green
Last Line: Weighed in a scale by the measured pound!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AT THIS POINT, THE MOON STARTS TO TAKE ON A LITTLE BROWN AND GRAY..., by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the andes / an old peruvian
Last Line: The old peruvian
Subject(s): Mountains; Peru; South America; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AT THOUGHT OF HILLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At thought of hills where streams begin
Last Line: A little hill. ...To ease my mind.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Thought; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Thinking; Journeys; Trips


AT TIMBERLINE, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is the high arena of the winds
Subject(s): Mountains


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)


AT WINTER SOLSTICE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dream, dream slow dreams
Last Line: And darkness melting like a drift of snow
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Violet-colour'd mountain summits
Last Line: "girofflino, girofflette!"
Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AUNT ANNIE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was death on germs and spiders
Last Line: But she listened when I talked
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AURORA, JULY DOWNHILL, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fresh from a rainstorm %I walk the hill down
Last Line: Steps aside, %to make room
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains


AUTUMN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Golden and warm the summer rivers ran
Last Line: To last them through the season of the dark
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AUTUMN (DOUBLE OAK MOUNTAIN - ALABAMA), by IDA DREAM SCHWARTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hushed and old
Last Line: Of stiff white birch stirring like ghost.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Seasons; Fall; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AUTUMN CROCUS, by HELEN Y. LUKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knew that I would miss you on these steps
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


AUTUMN FANTASY, by JEAN PRITCHARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn has bestowed her accolade
Last Line: Your whispered summons come.
Subject(s): Autumn; Blue Ridge Mountains; Fantasy; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SUNSET ON THE SIERRA NEVADAS, by DOROTHY BOARDMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the autumn view
Last Line: Over all the landscape valley.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Fall


AUTUMN WALK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walk out of summer. Step into fall
Last Line: Walk out of summer. Step into fall
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AWAKENING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just when the day seemed drab
Last Line: And a gleaming gem of sand
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


AZORES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great green ships
Last Line: Ahead are one
Subject(s): Azores; Mountains


AZORES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great green ships
Last Line: The void behind, the void %ahead are one
Subject(s): Azores; Mountains


BACKSIDES OF HOUSES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Backsides of houses don't pretend
Last Line: And sandboxes bulge with buried treasure
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BALD-CAP REVISITED, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eleven years, and two fair months beside
Last Line: All life more dear and glad and wonderful.
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


BALLAD OF MOUNT JING, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swarms of flies cluster around my sick horse
Last Line: At a moment like this the traveler's heart %is a flag in the wind a hundred feet high
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains


BALLAD OF THE TANNERY WITCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jim backman wed the black haired maid
Last Line: The stump was raw and red!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BANISHMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cliffs are battered like the people
Last Line: My dreams have banished me
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains; Waiting


BANQUET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dine on the dictionary
Last Line: For daily fare
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BARN CAT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The barn cat always greets you at the stable door
Last Line: That a lady is a lady, no matter where she lives
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight
Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year.
Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BEAUTY TREATMENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The meadow is dowdy in its faded brown
Last Line: Is a delicate powdering of snow!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BEE PASTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here there is pasture for the sun struck bees
Last Line: Spread thickly on his crusty home baked bread
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BEFORE THE DELUGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am tired of the rain
Last Line: Forgive me if I, too, hesitate and wonder
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BEFORE THE STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees are wringing their anxious hands
Last Line: Before the great sky river flows
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BELOW FREEZING ON PINELOG MOUNTAIN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crouched in the rusted cab of a junked pulpwood truck
Last Line: Rises like gray smoke through rust holes in the roof.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Appalachia; Guns; Mountains; Rain; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BELOW MT. NEBO, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the crossing, green swales
Last Line: Kinetic plants front the dark
Subject(s): Mountains


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)


BEN LOMOND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hadst thou a genius on thy peak
Last Line: Of perishable man.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BERKSHIRE HILLS, by WILL H. SKALING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sunrise o'er berkshire hills, hush
Last Line: Sedge in meadows, river lush.
Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BESIDE THE MOUNTAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Living beside the mountain all my life
Last Line: The mountain still will bulk against the sky
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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


BIG SUR 6/23/97, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds slept-in this morning
Last Line: In single syllables %before breakfast
Subject(s): Birds; Mountains


BIG SUR LIGHT: 4, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds slept-in this morning
Last Line: Before breakfast
Subject(s): Birds; Mountains; Hills


BIRD TREE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nuthatch and titmouse and purple finch
Last Line: Blossom here while tulips sleep
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BIRDS OF A FEATHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swirl of black in the back yard
Last Line: Around blue shoulders of the sky
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BIRTHDAY LINES FOR OCTOBER'S CHILD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: October's the month of frost and flame
Last Line: I'm glad that you were born!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BIRTHDAY SONG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that you're one, going on two
Last Line: Now that you're one, going on two!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BIRTHDAY VERSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have fulfilled my dreams for you
Last Line: The years have blessed you
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BITTERSWEET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: O bittersweet is the taste of life
Last Line: Hold on to the hurrying years
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BLACK BUTTE, by PAUL SOUTHWORTH BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Squat on the prairie, scowling, sits black butte, mightiest rock-chief of them
Last Line: And the rock lips break into a long, bitter smile!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BLACK LEAD MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the trail climbs free of brush
Last Line: In the mountains shadow, %always, only the earth
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature


BLESSED PERMANENCE OF HILLS, by EDITH OGDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could not live where there is not a hill
Last Line: A panacea for littleness that kills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BLEST IS THE TARN, by SARA COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade
Last Line: She yields that dream of bliss to ever welcome sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Lakes; Mountains; Tarns; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BLIZZARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a day for knitting mittens
Last Line: And school is as far as the milky way!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BLOOM UPON THE MOUNTAIN, STATED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The experience
Subject(s): Mountains


BLUE HILLS, by PHILIP FRANCIS LITTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hills, the blue hills, what say the blue
Subject(s): Mountains


BLUE SHIRT, by PAUL W. SKEETERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a boy with a new blue shirt today
Last Line: And carry wistful fire in my eyes.
Subject(s): Dreams; Himalayas (mountains); Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tops of the higher peaks
Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains


BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tops of the higher peaks
Last Line: This flower to its hidden senses
Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains


BOAR'S HILL; OCTOBER, 1919, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall slender beech trees, whispering, touched with fire
Last Line: Ere your steps turned home?
Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Pain; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery


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


BOILING SAP AT NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our sugarhouse was jest a shack
Last Line: That syrup made at dead of night!
Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating; Mountains; Soup; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me
Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine.
Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife
Last Line: Chorus—
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BORDER HILLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mosaic of topaz, emerald, and mauve
Last Line: And as old.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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


BREAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is an ancient magic in the hands
Last Line: Give us this day our daily bread
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BREAD OF HATHERLEIGH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We made a pilgrimage to see the town
Last Line: Was what we came to hatherleigh to find
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BREAKFAST TIME AT THE EAST DELAWARE OUTLET AT LOWE'S CORNERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Switches click, gates open and water pushes through
Last Line: They go
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BRIDE, by THOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: After the turgid incidence and when
Last Line: "the peak seemed highest, whispering, ""take me there."
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BRIGHT HARVEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: These fields are not so poor as one might think
Last Line: On these wide fields where beauty always grows!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BROADWAY IN THE OZARKS: NIGHT, by BETTY CORBETT BASSETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tall, flung trees
Last Line: The virgin, noisy night untouched by man-made melody.
Subject(s): Ozarks (mountains)


BROOK LULLABY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep, the sound of singing water
Last Line: Swinging over the singing brook
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


BUONARROTI, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No longer cold or dolorous, the gleaming mountains loom
Last Line: Mad angelo still proves that marble lived -- and never dies!
Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BURNING MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No blacker than others in winter, but
Last Line: Still cold, that should last us, and our grandchildren
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Mountains


BURY HILL, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To this green hill a something dream-like clings
Last Line: And feed my wonder, while the sheep graze on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BY EARTH RESTORED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From grime and bitterness of city street
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


BY SQUATTER'S RIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I claim this lovely
Last Line: These years
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


CACHE LA POUDRE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole world / (which you said I was
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CALIFORNIA HILLS, by DORIS CALDWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You would not need to flaunt yourself for me
Last Line: Withhold your beauty or my heart will break!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW, by MARY KINZIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains did look in
Last Line: Like a drone instrument / the highway
Subject(s): Mountains; Man-woman Relationships; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Male-female Relations


CAPE COD - JULY 30, 1984, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The restless water sweeps the sand
Last Line: Sandpipers and gulls
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CAPRICE, by IDA STERNFELS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady fleecer
Last Line: "and hold high carnival."
Subject(s): Montana; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CARP, by M. ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ukranian fisherman
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


CATHAIR FHARGUS [FERGUS'S SEAT], by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With face turned upward to the changeful sky
Last Line: And thus I wait till resurrection-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Arran (island), Ireland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CATHEDRAL, by BESSY KERLEE MONROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mountains at morning were like a row
Last Line: "chanting, ""thanks be to god!"
Subject(s): Holidays; Mountains; Thanksgiving; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CAUCASUS, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Below me the caucasus. Lone on the height
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains)


CAUCASUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fit throne for such a power! Magnificent!
Last Line: Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.
Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians


CAUCASUS (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At midnight / the moon arose: and lo! The ethereal cliffs
Last Line: Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon.
Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians


CELLAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I could lift the trap door once again
Last Line: And smell the cellar breath, remembering
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CHAMOUNY AT SUNRISE, by FRIEDERIKE BRUNN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the deep shadow of the silent fir-grove
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains


CHANGE, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mighty mountain pass! From eldest time
Last Line: Pure voice of wind and stream?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By easy slope to west, as if it had
Last Line: That thou wert great when homer was not born, %and ere thou change all human song shall die!
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Mountains


CHOCURUA, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pioneer of a great company
Last Line: He steals, conspicuous, from the mountain-crowd.
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


CHORE TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The milker's steady hoosh - a - hoosh
Last Line: Here in this peaceful place!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CHURNING THE BUTTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dasher's steady thump goes on and on
Last Line: Cool buttermilk is tangy on his tongue
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CICADAS, by ARTHUR KUSHNER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


CIRCLE ON THE CALENDAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How awful to be certain
Last Line: Is harder far to bear
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CIRCLES - AFTER SEEING IRELAND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Circles are easiest and earliest to build
Last Line: My life lived in circles too
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CITY OF STONES - 1962 CLARYVILLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk in the city of stones
Last Line: Lichened words, once watered with warm tears
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CLASS 1-A, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boy is like the awkward, leggy colt
Last Line: His hands will ache to hold a plow again
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CLEANING THE ATTIC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The room is full of curious ghosts
Last Line: As they go up in smoke
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains


CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras
Last Line: Many men, along time, comrade
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains


CLIMBING THE SMALL HILL, CRAIGBANK FARM, by PRISCILLA FRAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I still remember
Last Line: As I swung over and stumbled down
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature


CLOUDS ON WHITEFACE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So lovingly the clouds caress his head
Last Line: A sullen rock, his brow to heaven he bares.
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


COLD MOUNTAIN IS FULL OF WEIRD SIGHTS, by HAN-SHAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: At a touch of rain the whole mountain shimmers - %but only in good weather can you make the climb
Subject(s): Mountains


COLDEST NIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold is a creature who pads and growls
Last Line: He will get us all if the red fire dies!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


COMING BACK TO MOUNTAINS, by BIANCA BRADBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: These quiet lazy mountains are my own
Subject(s): Mountains


COMING OF MONT BLANC, by HENRY MORFORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Running along the high level
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains


COMMENCEMENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tired old warriors on the hill
Last Line: Give him a better blade to hold!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


COMPOSITION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sliced onions, pulled this morning from the row
Last Line: Fit for a king, or for the farmer's supper
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CONFESSION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am part pagan
Last Line: Who sneaks home from chasing deer
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CONNECTICUT HILLS, by MINERVA WRIGHT ROCKWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: For countless centuries these hills have stood
Last Line: Will sleep among these hills, to waken at their bidding.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CONQUERORS: A PAGE IN HISTORY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The swath cut by the obsidian blade
Last Line: A few coins washed up on a florida beach
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CONTENT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should be content
Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CONTENT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should be content
Last Line: And not as a comment %on my life
Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains


CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond and farther and yet from every vantage
Last Line: The ever and never known the pivot the horizon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CONTRASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is roaring down the lake
Last Line: Will never bloom again!
Subject(s): Evil; Mountains; Soul; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CONVERSATION IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you were to ask me why I dwell among green mountains
Last Line: There is another heaven and earth beyond the world of men
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Mountains


COUNTRY DOCTOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doctor was an angry man
Last Line: I am alive today
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


COUNTRY DUSK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind dies down, and if you
Last Line: Meant to be
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


COURTSHIP AMONG THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the woodland pasture
Last Line: Beneath the moonlit sky.
Subject(s): Courtship; Cumberland Mountains


COURTSHIP AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the woodland pasture
Last Line: Beneath the moonlit sky.
Subject(s): Courtship; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


COVERLET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I would weave words for your first birthday
Last Line: A gift to wrap the child I've yet to see
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CRAZY QUILT - NEW YORK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here earth holds pastures, meadows, airports
Last Line: Little roads and paths, rail fences and old stone walls
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CREATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the long dearth, the fallow time
Last Line: The blank page sprouts with the new green words
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CROCKNAHARNA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the heights of crocknaharna
Last Line: Twenty hundred miles away.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CROSS LOTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young johnny burroughs went cross lots to school
Last Line: But burroughs wandered cross lots all his days
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CROSSING THE BARRIER MOUNTAINS, by ZHANG ZHENG-JIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Barrier mountains, crossed at dawn's moon
Last Line: And when they hear the sobbing waters, %all are stricken by the heartbreaking sound
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Mountains


CROSSING THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE IN WINTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cars play a monotonous follow - the - leader
Last Line: Clouds swirl up from the whirling wheels
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


CRY OF THE HILLBORN, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am homesick for the mountains
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature


CYCLISTS, by JOHN CHRISTOPHER PINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bent low over the handlebars
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


DAKOTA HILLS, by H. R. MARTINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hills in the hazy
Last Line: Are leveled in sleep.
Subject(s): Mountains; North Dakota; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DARK PRINCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was young I knew the dark prince
Last Line: Why did you wait so long?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DAVID, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: David and I that summer cut trails on the survey
Last Line: That day, the last of my youth, on the last of our mountains.
Subject(s): Hiking; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DAY IN MAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Linda's dresses are billowed wide
Last Line: Play - at - home day!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DAY MY FATHER CRIED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day my father cried
Last Line: That day my whole world changed
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DAY THE ALLIGATOR CAME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've never been sure what my fence is about
Last Line: Any chance to communicate was missed
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DEAD IN THE SIERRAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His footprints have failed us
Last Line: And iron is rust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


DEATH ON SOUTH HILL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old woman lay on the crumpled feather bed
Last Line: At the door: if I can help, will you let me know?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DECAYING, by JEAN PAPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am like the fruit
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


DECEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The punctual sun hangs lower now
Last Line: And warmth of christmas is heart - whole
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DECEMBER NIGHT AT RUDOLPH FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A moonless night
Last Line: For the holidays
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DECEMBER PASTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wintergreen and partridge berry
Last Line: This is the lean - ribbed time of year
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DECEMBER RAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: December rain is like no other rain
Last Line: The last ablution of the dying year
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DECEMBER WALK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come with me to the snowy woods
Last Line: Will watch us walk in the glistening wood!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DECOMPOSTION, by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The beast lay
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


DEDICATION TO 'RHYMES FROM THE CUMBERLAND', by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bring this little book
Last Line: The dear old cumberlands.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains


DEER IN THE GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Delicate hooves leave cloven prints
Last Line: In the april dusk
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DEER PARK, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountain is empty, no man can be seen;
Last Line: Shines again on green moss, above
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains


DEER SEASON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three does slip from the woods at dawn
Last Line: Sudden death
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DELIGHT BECOMES PICTORIAL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And that's — the skies
Subject(s): Sky; Mountains; Nature


DESERT MONTAINS (MEXICAN COAST), by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Their loneliness lies brooding like a cloud
Last Line: Mere spindrift flying in a windy place.
Subject(s): Mexico; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DIARIES OF JULIANA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not sea harvest or land harvest
Last Line: A life I read and live as if it were my own
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DIGGING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boy is barefooted in crisp frosty weather
Last Line: The earth on his feet and the song in his heart
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DINOSAUR HUNTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sees them in the present tense
Last Line: A hundred million years or so
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DISCOVERY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never knew what water really meant
Last Line: Pounded in me
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DISPOSSESSED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything comes processed nowadays
Last Line: Program. Compute. Respond by rote
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DISTANT ALPS, by FLORENCE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: But I must leave thee, italy! Today
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains


DISTANT MOUNTAINS, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountain colors, whether near or far
Last Line: A stranger walks by, ignorant of their names
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): Mountains


DISTANT THUNDER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The distant thunder rolling down the skies
Last Line: Our plenty crumbles and our food is dust
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DIVIDENT HILL, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pause here, o muse! That fancy's eye
Last Line: Their heaven-built monument.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs.
Subject(s): Heroism; Mountains; Heroes; Heroines; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DOG AT FULL MOON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The full moon stirs some memory in the dog
Last Line: For worlds long - buried he has never known
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DOG DAYS IN VERMONT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cistern on the hill, sucked dry and sizzling
Last Line: Imagination's limits, how they fade... %even the dogs are sleeping in their pens.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Vacation; Vermont


DOWN SUGAR LOAF BROOK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking with the water down sugar loaf brook
Last Line: We can't keep up with it
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DREAM OF LOST CITIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dream of cities
Last Line: Waiting to be found
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DRINK OF WATER AT THE SPRING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He kneels before the never - failing spring
Last Line: And just as sure to find again the source
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DRIVER, 1941 MODEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How long before cars reach the heights
Last Line: And knew more than the car!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


DRY SPELL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The summer pasture shrivels in the heat
Last Line: The poor relations, blossom endlessly!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


EARLY EVENING IN APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A drift of fragrance down a lane of spring
Last Line: Wistful and delicate and debonair.
Subject(s): April; Evening; Mountains; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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)


EDEN-STRANGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Things move and change and take on varying shapes
Last Line: It's eden - strange
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


EDUCATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: His thoughts fall neatly into patterns now
Last Line: Like toads and diamonds in a fairy tale
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


EMPTY NEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sedate the house and quiet now
Last Line: I think that I could work
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ENGINEER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The small boy, intent, with pants rolled knee high
Last Line: The creek went on talking. It would have the last %word
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ENGLISH HILLS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O that I were
Last Line: Her cool dark loveliness.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ENTREATY, by RENA BARNEY CULBERTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye crags and peaks
Last Line: That sun and storm have lent!
Subject(s): Mountains


EPIGRAM ON THE TWO MOUNTAINS OF AMOS-CLIFF AND BILBOROUGH, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold how almias-cliff and bilborough's brow
Last Line: Let them, maria, thy parnassus be!
Subject(s): 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)


EPITHALAMIUM, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bee in the field. The house on the mountain
Last Line: Of light: particle to wave. Do you take? I do
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ESCAPE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We saw a doe at friendly dusk
Last Line: The soul a breathing space
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


EVEN AS A DRAGON'S EYE THAT FEELS THE STRESS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While hearts and voices in the song unite
Subject(s): Family Life; Mountains


EVENING - MOUNTAINS, by THEODORE DREISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shadowy hills
Last Line: The poem of a star.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; 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 AMONG THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the rocky cumberlands
Last Line: Closes a summer day.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains


EVENING IN THE GREAT SMOKIES, by DUBOSE HEYWARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is their moment, when the brimming skies
Subject(s): Great Smoky Mountains


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)


EVERY TIME I ROLL UP TOWELS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every time I put away towels
Last Line: Or wilt lettuce, I remember
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't such a bad thing
Last Line: Everyone knows whom the saved envy
Subject(s): Angels; Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EVISA: A SKETCH IN CORSICA, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the rose-red chasms and the gorges
Last Line: Lone upon wide wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Corsica; Drawing; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


EVOLUTION OF SAND, by JEAN PAPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's something about the way
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


EXALTATION, by HILDA WHILT ARCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I climbed the glad hills near our friendly old town
Last Line: That I found 'mongst the silent ones, over the hill.
Subject(s): Montana; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EXILE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How well he knew the geography of the land
Last Line: Like ranks of firewood he had helped to stack
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


EXPEDITION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ants came marching in perfect order
Last Line: They'll send another expedition tomorrow
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


EXPEDITIONS, by JOANNE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My chauffeur lectured me
Last Line: As mountains blurred beneath our feet. %we grieved for all that lay ahead
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel


EXPERIENCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was young, I wrote of death
Last Line: I wept, and could not say his name
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain and the squirrel / had a quarrel
Last Line: Neither can you crack a nut.'
Subject(s): Mountains; Religion; Squirrels; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology


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)


FAR, FAR, THE MOUNTAIN PATH IS STEEP, by UNKNOWN+125    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The coming of the solitary crane
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


FAREWELL TO ETNA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great mountain, swathed in blue with foamy crest
Last Line: May counsel with my soul to rival his.
Subject(s): Farewell; Mountains; Soul; Tears; Parting; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FARM AUCTION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just yesterday, they started keeping house
Last Line: More than a farm, when they bid in his land
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FEBRUARY QUILT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Uneven days of winter never match
Last Line: Here is my february quilt, a strange mismatch!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FEBRUARY THAW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind's voice strikes more gently on our ears
Last Line: Who thought a february thaw was spring!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FEEDING THE CHICKENS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sharp crayon colors illustrate the scene
Last Line: The scene is always near, not years away
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FEEDING THE GULLS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter gulls circle the deserted beach
Last Line: They snatch it from the air
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FIGURE SHOULD SEEM TO BE CONTEMPLATING THE MOUNTAIN, by JIE ZI YUAN HUA ZHUAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Appears to be listening to the notes of the lute
Subject(s): Mountains


FIREWOOD (FOR STEVE SANFIELD), by DOC DACHTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We stacked each other
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


FIRST CROP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He looked upon that rocky place
Last Line: The first crop is stones in anything new
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FIRST CROP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mustard green and water cress
Last Line: Appeases ancient hungering
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FIRST FLIGHT, by JANET CARNCROSS CHANDLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft thud, startled screech
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


FIRST SNOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On fields and pastures
Last Line: Of the snow
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FISH WEATHER VANE - CLARYVILLE CHURCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The weather vane is shilly shallying today
Last Line: And mackerel skies slow varying winds in motion
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FLINT AND STEEL, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountain / mesquite
Last Line: For the little verb that will kindle the fire!
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Smells; Spring; Trees; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


FLORIDA - ALIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to think that florida
Last Line: And every ditch full of the soup of life
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FLOWERING BASSWOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In summer forest tarrying
Last Line: Is sweeter than the first
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FLOWERS FOR JULIANA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Andrew brought flowers from the pasture
Last Line: Andrew always brought me flowers, she would say
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FLYING OFF, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thoughts will not be tethered
Last Line: In flight through thinning air
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FOR A GOOD COMPANION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We ate stone soup together
Last Line: Alone is chill and bleak
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FOR CAROL, ON HER TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the april hour before the sun
Last Line: But now, I look at you, and it is spring
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FOR DANIEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sorry there's nothing in the nest
Last Line: All I can find is a thin - shelled doubt
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FOR MARY, BORN IN TROUBLED TIMES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nurse held out a snugly wrapped cocoon
Last Line: May friendly stars reach down and comfort you
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings
Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons


FOREIGN LAND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: May poles - merry - go - rounds
Last Line: Childhood is a foreign land
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FOREST PLANTATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: These stubborn acres never liked the plow
Last Line: We will restore its heritage of trees
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FOREVER IN MY DREAM AND IN MY MORNING THOUGHT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He knows not when nor how
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains


FORTH FROM A JUTTING RIDGE, AROUND WHOSE BASE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From age to age in blended memory
Subject(s): Sisters; Mountains; Death


FRESHET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The brook begins to leap and show its claws
Last Line: The house cat is a tiger for an hour
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FRINGE BENEFITS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lib alone and like it if you choose
Last Line: Fringe benefits attached are simply great!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FROM A CITY DESK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boy would bring the oxen in from work
Last Line: The boy comes back, and he cannot forget
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FROM AN OLD VISITORS' BOOK AT THE WASDALE HEAD FARM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of scawfell pike I clomt the height
Last Line: Let he who wills go climb the hills, %but I'll stay in the valley
Subject(s): Mountains


FROM EAGLE ROCK, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who says that eagle rock was not well named
Last Line: Luminous, hushed, a city of the skies!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FROM MOUNTAIN-SLOPES, by NELLIE I. CRABB    Poem Text                    
First Line: I climb through terraced gardens, see below
Last Line: Demand that love prepare their day of peace.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FROM MY DIARY: OCTOBER DAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees have briefly come to bloom
Last Line: Before they fall
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FROM PENLAN HILL, CARMARTHEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the town the valley lies
Last Line: Limpid stream and laughing water.
Subject(s): Carmarthen, Wales; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen


FROM THE CABRILLO AT SANTA BARBARA, by EMILY WILSON SANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: One by one the white cohorts advance
Last Line: In the sun, with garlands in her hair.
Subject(s): Mountains; Seashore; Waves; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Beach; Coast; Shore


FROM THE QUIET STREAM, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


FROST DOGS ARE RUNNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frost dogs are running
Last Line: And leave it black
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FROST ON THE WINDOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frost spider is weaving her fragile web
Last Line: With the fabric of dreams and mystery
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FUGITIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I miss the little sound of leaves
Last Line: Winter - weary mouse
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


FULL MOON BRIMMING, by JEFF JONES    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


GATHERING OF SWALLOWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gathering of swallows lasts for days
Last Line: Then silence hovers and the birds are gone
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


GEESE STOPPING OVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A torrent of birds
Last Line: Except for a few soft settling - down words
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


GENERAL DELIVERY, by BEN L. HIATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the same at all these small
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


GEO-BESTIARY: 14, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a geezer one grows tired of the story
Last Line: And make your own little pyramids.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GHOSTS OF PAPER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Should you go down ludgate hill
Last Line: As I'm sure you often will!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GIFT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mark gave the boy the shell before he left
Last Line: The old man knew he had eternity
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


GIVING NOTICE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm through with tending sacred cows
Last Line: But give no milk
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


GLEANERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Empty pods rattle on stiff brown vines
Last Line: Field mice take what the pheasants scorn
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


GLORY HOLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyone should have a glory hole
Last Line: Everyone should have a glory hole!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


GOD MADE THE MOUNTAIN VERY HIGH, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Were very small things after all
Subject(s): Mountains


GOD MEETS ME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God meets me in the mountains when I climb alone and high
Last Line: God meets me in the canyon when I miss him in the town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): God; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't go down the bank, my mother said
Last Line: Then I'd wake, thinking - sweetness, sweetness
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Mountains


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)


GOLDEN ROWAN, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She lived where the mountains go down to
Last Line: Is all we know of her.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GRANITE HANDS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The great granite hands of the mountain
Last Line: Strong hands were built for shelter.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GRANNY'S HERB GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caraway, rosemary, marjoram and sage
Last Line: To keep and tend a garden so the blooms stand tall
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


GREAT SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Climbing one day, I reach the plateau
Last Line: Makes an effort to break his bonds
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea


GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Knuckles and knobs and half - obscured scars
Last Line: Love flows through her arms. She is ageless, content
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honey I'd split your kindling
Last Line: & my dove
Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains; Agriculture; Farmers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GROWING OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to milk this old cow dry
Last Line: Kicking and squalling
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HANDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were farmer's hands - sturdy, competent
Last Line: Lifting a small boy down from a load of hay
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HARD EASTER, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadows from the spruce woods slouch down the hill
Last Line: Open underground.
Subject(s): Death; Montana; Mountains; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HASBEEN HILL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill
Last Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill!
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HAWAII AND OAHU, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hawaii, with thy sea-washed shore
Last Line: Until we meet again.
Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Mountains; Volcanoes; Parting; Oceania; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HAYING TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Small creatures meet the judgment day
Last Line: And this small world is upside down
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HEAD OF THE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under his skin he wasn't brave at all
Last Line: That no one guessed the lion was a mouse
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HEART'S DAUGHTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are my heart's daughter
Last Line: You are my heart's daughter
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HEMLOCK MOUNTAIN, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: By orange grove and palm-tree, we walked the southern shore
Last Line: For all the summer islands where the gulf tides flow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HEMLOCKS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poetry of hemlocks is deep and green
Last Line: The quiet aisles are sanctuary
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HERE COMES FEBRUARY!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here comes that old hag, february
Last Line: When she'll be gone and leave march in her place
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HI AND WALTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: By his drawers, so itchy, roomy
Last Line: Good companion like his hilda!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HIGH GROUND, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today heidi & I hiked
Last Line: Wet but with a good view
Subject(s): Mountains; Parks


HIGH TIDE, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twilight deepened and one by one
Last Line: Till the frightened tide turned to flee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion
Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


HIGHLAND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the white sierra %very fine snow %and wind in your face
Last Line: We all are to see your face
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Nature; Spain; Travel


HILL, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hill is insufficiently tested chau d'eau
Last Line: Not to turn around but to do a half-flip
Subject(s): Mountains


HILL AND VALE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not on the river plains
Last Line: Of stars and clouds allied.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILL HUNGER, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to stride the hills! My feet cry out
Subject(s): Mountains


HILL OF HUA-TZU, by PEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun sets
Last Line: The blue of the mountains, %touches my clothes
Subject(s): Mountains


HILL OF THE HATCHET-LEAVED BAMBOOS, by PEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the white moonlight the stream
Last Line: I walk and sing, %my eyes on the familiar summits
Subject(s): Mountains


HILL TIDES, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: These rolling billows of the hills
Last Line: And wash it golden clean for me.
Subject(s): Mountains; Summer; Tides; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Partner, remember the hills?
Subject(s): Mountains


HILLS, by HILDA CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills are going somewhere;
Last Line: In the time I've watched them . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the complicated house came I
Subject(s): Mountains


HILLS, by SCOTTIE MCKENZIE FRASIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My earliest memories are of hills
Last Line: Or else let me dream -- then die!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never loved your plains!
Last Line: And strength for climbing!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have not lived until you know a hill
Last Line: That strange tree-god that watches over all.
Subject(s): Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a special glory set apart
Last Line: Can turn them to the hills, as friends of old!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hills - / blue and green hills, near and far
Last Line: But the beautiful far ones call for me
Subject(s): Mountains


HILLS O' MY HEART, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hills o' my heart!
Last Line: Hills o' my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, by CYRUS CASWELL JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I can hear the padres chanting in the early golden air
Last Line: On the hills of california in the morning.
Subject(s): California; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS OF HOME, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Name me no names for my disease
Last Line: "seeking again those hills."
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS OF HOME, by MALCOLM HEMPHREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Yon hills are filled with sunlight
Last Line: And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


HILLS OF OHIO, by GRACE K. EWART    Poem Text                    
First Line: With their heads adorned in splendor
Last Line: Than the hills of old ohio in the fall.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLSIDE FOSSILS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sea shells are bedded in the gray rock ledge
Last Line: Their seal and symbol, and their sign and mark
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HILLTOP, by LAURA M. GRADICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The heights are best for vision
Last Line: We can commune with god.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLTOP FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: South hill in summer sun, dusted with gold
Last Line: Title reverts to the returning trees
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HIMALAYA, by WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood upon a pinnacle of stone
Last Line: I felt the majesty of nature wait.
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains)


HIRED MAN AND THE MAGIC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After chores were done
Last Line: Into his pocket the music went
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HIS MIRACLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He read how faith, the merest grain
Last Line: "those mountains may remain,"" said he."
Subject(s): Miracles; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HOME COMING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the place of beginning, the old deed read
Last Line: And look across the blue - green hills of home
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HOME IN THE HILLS, by ALTHEA V. DIEHL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Home in the hills, - back where my heart is
Last Line: I'd like a heart you reared and loved come out to welcome me.
Subject(s): Hearts; Home; Mountains; Peace; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HOME!, by LU CICADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: April again hotly pursuing march
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


HOMELAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My adirondack mountain home
Last Line: Where roots have struck down deep.
Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HOOVES OF TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: While I dream
Last Line: The hooves of time are galloping
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HOUSE OF EARTH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Infinity and dandelions
Last Line: I shall explore
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HOW THE MOUNTAINS TALK, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day to tupungato came a sound from far away
Last Line: And, with a crash of breaking rocks, replied, 'the two %are one!'
Subject(s): Hurricanes; Mountains


HUA-TZU HILL, by P'EI TI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dappled sunset, and the pine wind rises
Last Line: What sadness my heart bears!
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


HUCKLEBERRYING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's go huckleberrying in the hilltop pasture
Last Line: And spicy pink azalea and stiff hardhack
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HUDSON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ma-hican-ittuck! / river to the mountains
Last Line: Beats warm and unafraid.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; New York City - Dutch Period; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HUSON BURYING GROUND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This stony catskill field along the huson road
Last Line: Some part of ireland's in this huson ground
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


HUT MOUNTAIN, by TS'AN LIAO TZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tall pines squeeze the road
Last Line: Outside the mountains %there is nothing so pure
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


HYMN TO ARTEMIS: ALL MOUNTAINS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me all mountains
Last Line: And the towering mountain trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; 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)


I BORROWED FIRE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In chill sad times
Last Line: Where can I borrow fire?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


I CALL THE HILL, by SUSU JEFFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: An earth breast
Last Line: The land is her own
Subject(s): Landscape; Mountains; West (u.s.)


I CARE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I mourn the passing of condor great blue whale panther
Last Line: I care
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


I HAVE HEARD THE CENTAUR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw the centaur leaping at the sky
Last Line: And felt winds blow from pastures wild and blue
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


I HAVE SILVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have silver every day
Last Line: Tap softly on my bedroom window
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


I LIKE TO FIND A PUDDING STONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to find a pudding stone
Last Line: As sure as change
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


I LIKE WORDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like a gaudy word or two
Last Line: And loving words that go unsaid
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


I LOVE MOUNTAINS, by HO SHAO-CHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This poet loves mountains like his own flesh and blood
Last Line: While the green mountains stand eternally, looking compassionate
Subject(s): Mountains


I NEVER LEARN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart was hurt too often
Last Line: Or reaching for the stars
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


I THINK I'LL TAKE MY SON AND DAUGHTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think I'll take my son and daughter
Last Line: But best of all for naps, sundown!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


I WANT TO ARRANGE, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to arrange everything
Last Line: And there still mountains, and from those mountains does the %wind still blow?
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains


I WOULD LIKE, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


I'D LIKE TO TAKE LIFE BY THE THROAT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees exult with color
Last Line: And fight and scream and claw
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ICARUS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my wings grow long
Last Line: Some day
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ICE STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shabby pasture, bedraggled and brown
Last Line: The wind is the bull in the china shop!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IDES OF MARCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The morning bonfire of the sun
Last Line: For life is waiting with a sharpened blade
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IDLE, I VISITED THE HIGH MONKS, by UNKNOWN+125    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Pool of lamplight beneath the moon
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


IDYL OF THE MOUNTAIN, by DEMETRIO FABREGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you not seen two springs of pure water, among
Last Line: Slowly yours will go on drawing nearer to mine!
Subject(s): Mountains; Panama; Togetherness


IF I COULD ONLY REMEMBER UNTIL MORNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flights of thought insomnia brings
Last Line: Seem dull and ordinary!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IF I HAD ONE I'D TRY IT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you really must sort all your diamonds some day
Last Line: But a real one will squeak when it's touched with %dry ice!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Liebe, meine, liebe. I had not hoped
Last Line: How gravely and sweetly the poor touch in the dark
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IF THAT BE YOUTH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, I was young, and I was brave
Last Line: That unawareness back
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IN 1841 WASHOE CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1844, explorers john fremont and kit carson discovered lake tahoe
Last Line: Found what was not lost
Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Explorers; Native Americans


IN A CLOUD RIFT, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon our loftiest white mountain peak
Last Line: And heaven but earth raised into purer air.
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


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 DECEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is no terror sharp as the start
Last Line: Nothing but splendor in that bright tree
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IN HELICON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In helicon, in helicon
Last Line: Beware! Beware! Beware!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IN MY OWN LANGUAGE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We can't cut this timber
Last Line: Only as I learn to speak it
Subject(s): Language; Santa Cruz Mountains, California


IN THE ADIRONDACKS, by LIONEL BASNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the museum the life of the past
Last Line: Still close enough to touch
Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York


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 BERKSHIRE HILLS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can the village dead remain so / still
Last Line: And dance in triumph on my crumbling shroud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Mountains; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At last I stood in wonder
Last Line: He could not read the tablet either
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IN THE CHARMED LAND, by FRANCES HATHAWAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great mountain, white mountain
Last Line: And the rose in snow!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE GREEN CREEK SPRING WATER IS CLEAR, by HAN SHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: View all things as the void and this world is even more still
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


IN THE HIGH HILLS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Height overhead to the deeps
Last Line: The everlasting hills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE MOUNTAINS, by JAMES THOMAS COTTON NOE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a little mountain boy
Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton
Subject(s): Mountains


IN THE ORCHARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The orchard shade invites you to its depths
Last Line: Purple of grape and honey - colored pear!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


IN THE SUN HERE, by SHELLY A. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All along the valley, stream that flashest white
Last Line: The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Pyrenees (mountains), Europe


IN THE VISITORS' BOOK AT MOUNT GRACE, NORTHALLERTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye pilgrims to the mount called grace
Last Line: When next you make a call this way, %consider this refrain
Subject(s): Mountains


IN TIME OF DROUGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thirsty earth
Last Line: Roots stretch
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


IN WILD PLACES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beauty always grows in wild, untended places
Last Line: All you need for harvesting is a seeing heart
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall
Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . .
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues


INFERNO,SELS: PART 2-THE MOUNTAIN, by GREGOR STRNISA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its two peaks are never obscured by mists
Last Line: The minotaur impales the others on its horns
Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food And Eating; Hunger; Mountains


INSOMNIA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the dark they come
Last Line: I beg them to let me sleep
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


INTERLUDE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today there is no noisy flight of wind or birds
Last Line: Crumpling pale hepaticas in each chubby fist
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


INTO THE MIDST OF BATTLE, by CARLA LANYON LANYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mountains are at war; flash and flash again
Last Line: That were before and shall endure beyond all wars.
Subject(s): Mountains; War; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IRISH HILLS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I look unto mine own blue hills
Last Line: And the lark chants at the gates of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Mountains


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)


JOAN OF ARC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joan of arc spoke to me
Last Line: To make me feel the flames
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


JOHN CHAPMAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The apple gospel that he preached
Last Line: They called him johnny appleseed
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


JONATHAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a small boy in a jonathan tree
Last Line: The smell of the apple, tangy and crisp
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


JUDEAN HILLS ARE HOLY, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of jesus everywhere
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mountains


JUNE 21 1990, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I were in kotzebue
Last Line: Forget the waiting permafrost
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


JUST IN CASE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Letters have upper and lower case
Last Line: Can he solve the case of 'case'?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


KILIMANDJARO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to thee, monarch of african mountains
Last Line: Father of nile and creator of egypt!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Kilimanjaro, Mount (africa); Mountains; Nile (river); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


KILLING THE ROOSTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pullets were sleek and the cockerels
Last Line: It is not easy to become a man
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


KINCHINJUNGA, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O white priest of eternity, around
Last Line: On any shrine is left to tell life's sting.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Future Life; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


KING'S MOUNTAIN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all the cities of this year
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


KLICKITAT HILLS, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are no fat
Last Line: With loneliness.
Subject(s): Mountains; 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)


LANDSCAPE, by CHALLIS SILVAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stalwart old men of earth
Last Line: By some miracle of destiny . . .
Subject(s): Canyons; Landscape; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LAST CRICKET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cricket that survives the early frost
Last Line: Beneath her dark inevitable wings
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LAST ECSTASY, by ALETHA CALDWELL CONNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want to go to the hills of oklahoma
Last Line: In the hills of oklahoma!
Subject(s): Mountains; Oklahoma; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LAST GIFT, by LU CICADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To fall away finally
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


LAST HARVEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the last sweet harvest of the year
Last Line: The gray sky thickens and I feel the threat of snow
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LAST WILL & TESTAMENT NO. 1, by ROBYN MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When death comes over me
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


LATE SNOW IN THE SMOKIES, by ELIZABETH JONES BROWNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spring, one night
Last Line: That palmer knew, and corot could not miss.
Subject(s): Smoky Mountains; Snow; Spring


LATE SNOW STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This storm that steps upon the heels of spring
Last Line: Earth stirs and stretches from her winter bed
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LATE WINTER SNOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: These small sierras sawing at the sky
Last Line: Let's hope spring cleaning comes when spring %commences!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LAUGHTER WILL RISE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some things endure. Be comforted
Last Line: Some things endure
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hamlet ballytullagh, small and old
Last Line: Loy, a half-spade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Despair; Mountains; Poverty; Solitude; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away
Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


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


LEAN YEAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thanks be for small and sour fruit
Last Line: All creatures will be met
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LEAR'S ADVENTURES IN CRETE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The landscape painter perceives the moufflons on the tops of the
Last Line: Of the mountains of crete by sticking on to a moufflon's horns
Subject(s): Mountains; Paintings And Painters


LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the self of my former shadow
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


LETTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have sold the stars haver and charles scratched
Last Line: Inside and out of the empty echoing house
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LETTER FROM FLORIDA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is lotus land, ripe with the fruits of summer
Last Line: Stone walls
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LETTER TO JAIPUR, 1989, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to tell, rekha
Last Line: Nineteen forty-four to fifty-five
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Letters


LETTER TO JAIPUR, 1989, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to tell, rekha
Last Line: Hills of the himalayas, %nineteen forty-four to fifty-five
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Letters


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)


LINES WRITTEN IN THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man, an irish man, 'tis true
Last Line: Is living in a treetrunk.
Subject(s): Mountains; Virginia


LITANY FOR SPARROW LYING IN THE PATH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: No special services for you, bird
Last Line: Did he turn his head?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LITTLE DAUGHTER, WASHING DISHES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little daughter, washing dishes
Last Line: Set no place for despair
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LITTLE PATHS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You come upon them unexpectedly
Last Line: And follow
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LITTLE THINGS, by POLLY CHASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is space in mountains
Last Line: Very brief.
Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


LIVING AMONG TREES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is different every day
Last Line: In the bed by the door
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LIVING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LU QINGZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everywhere under the earth
Last Line: The way to cinnabar hill
Subject(s): Buddhism; Mountains


LIVING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ZHANG YINYUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the dense forest, birds' chirping sounds clear
Last Line: At its windows, a flying waterfall hangs
Subject(s): Mountains


LOCAL BOY MISSING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was not ready for the gift of sleep
Last Line: And little winds whisper your requiem
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LOESS HILLS, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This hill I stand on is an egg of land
Last Line: When the eye is always a stranger, longing for a lost land
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains; Nature


LOOKING DOWN, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains of sorrow, I have heard your moans
Last Line: Might here come forth to us with bread and wine
Subject(s): Mountains; Vision


LOST EDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the snake can take me there again
Last Line: And innocence and the small snake were gone
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


LOUISA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met louisa in the shade
Last Line: To hunt the waterfalls.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LOVE MADE VISIBLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love shows itself in homely ways
Last Line: Children tucked in their beds at night
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


LUDGATE HILL-DECEMBER NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was the heart
Last Line: Over the craters, a banner from the dome.
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no one among men that has not a special failing
Last Line: I choose a place that is unfrequented by men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


MAKING ALLOWANCES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bill eats our food and shares our roof
Last Line: But with a common currency!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MAKING APPLE BUTTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cinnamon and cider and crisp northern spies
Last Line: But winter isn't here till we've made the apple butter
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MAKING BREAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sisters watch me as I shape the loaf and
Last Line: I feel my sisters watching, sharing, knowing
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MAN WITH AN AXE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He hefts the axe and the axe hangs true
Last Line: And built a house with his axe and his dreams
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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


MAPLES IN WINTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maples in winter have a listening look
Last Line: With miracle of leaf
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MARCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think that march is just a little boy
Last Line: He goes to sleep upon the lap of spring
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MARCH OF THE CORDILLERAS, by RAUL ZURITA    Poem Source                    
First Line: And there the mountains began to move
Last Line: Their lawless march
Subject(s): Chile; Mountains


MARIAN AT TASSAJARA SPRINGS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember your hair
Last Line: To black ash and orange flame
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Romance


MARIAN/'CHAMA' IN THREE MOUNTAIN RANGES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now we separate %branching letting go of pine cone
Last Line: I have grown old and snowblind
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Passion; Romance


MARKING TIME, by TRENT BUSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the bright hilltop
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


MASTER OF THE SITUATION, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your bike's been taken
Last Line: The mountainous weapon of its patience
Subject(s): Accidents; Bicycles; Life; 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


MAY ROAD, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road we followed led us to a hill
Last Line: Somehow, to keep the love that we exchanged.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MEETING THE MOUNTAINS, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He crawls to the edge of the foaming creek
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MEMO: FOR A BEDSIDE READING TABLE, SCRIBBLED AT 2. A.M., by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let others read to shudder and weep
Last Line: Why did I start on a book like that?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MEMORIAL DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not sing blues here in this place
Last Line: Flowers and tears should never last
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MERCURY; ON LOSING MY POCKET MILTON AT LUSS NEAR BEN LOMOND, by ROBERT ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Luss! Be forever sunk beneath / ben's horrors piled around
Last Line: The laurel never sere.'
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


METIGOSHE, by THONETTE TRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Past the garden, cairn and fountains
Last Line: Metigoshe of the mountains!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MICRO / MACRO, by STEVE LAVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The quail go hyperspace
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Down valley a smoke haze
Subject(s): Mountains; Memory; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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)


MIDSUMMER IN THE CATSKILLS, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The strident hum of sickle-bar
Last Line: Swim in a sea of peace.
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Serenity; Summer


MIGRATION, by HANNAH EKBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every summer they bundled us
Last Line: Thick and sure between our fingers
Subject(s): Appalachia; Illinois; Migration; Mountains; Travel


MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold'
Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines & Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold'
Last Line: On an old trail %all of a summer's day
Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines And Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains


MINING THE AMERICAN, by JON OLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up on the north fork
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


MIRACLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the bluegreen sealight of donegal
Last Line: Are a soft miracle
Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Mountains


MIRAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ethereal mountain
Subject(s): Mirages; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MIRAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ethereal mountain
Last Line: Can one believe you are not a mirage
Subject(s): Mirages; Mountains


MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ON MOUNTAIN TRAVEL: 1, by CHAO CHIH-HSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the summit road twists and turns, I'm soon to lose my way
Last Line: It's late in the year, the mountains are empty, and birds are %jabbering crazily
Subject(s): Mountains


MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ON MOUNTAIN TRAVEL: 2, by CHAO CHIH-HSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Evening clouds suddenly scatter and peaks come into view
Last Line: A single lamp flickers and dims withing the lookout tower
Subject(s): Mountains


MISERICORD, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory
Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery


MISERY IS THE YEAST -, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ferment
Last Line: I lack the proper background
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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


MONOLITHS, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind lay upon me
Last Line: Cleanly apart from time
Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott
Subject(s): Mountains


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


MONT BREVENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O dweller in the valley, lift thine eyes
Last Line: Only a little way above thy pain.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hope


MONTCLAIR, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear lovely mountain town, farewell
Last Line: Proud mountain town, montclair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry
Subject(s): Mountains; Towns; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MONTJUICH, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill of jews, says one,
Subject(s): Mountains; Barcelona, Spain; Cemeteries; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Graveyards


MOONLIGHT: CHICKENS ON THE ROAD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Called out of dream by the pitch and screech
Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Chickens; Grief; Ozarks (mountains); Sorrow; Sadness


MOOSIL'AUK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moosil'auk! Mountain sagamore! Thy brow
Last Line: Lone peak! What realms are thine, above, below!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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


MORNING EXERCISES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have no child or cat or bird
Last Line: Insists on being walked
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MORNING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morn on the mountains! Streaks of roseate
Last Line: How good, how wondrous good our god must be.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOTHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somehow I just can't think of you
Last Line: And knows that heaven's richer for the sound
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MOTHER LODE SPRING, by NAN TOWNSEND DEGELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was snow curled in the lettuce
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


MOUNT AGASSIZ, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this mountain bore his well-loved name
Last Line: Went prayer in horeb silence unto god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNT AGASSIZ, by WILLIAM WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around me stand the everlasting hills
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Mountains


MOUNT AGIOCHOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray searcher of the upper air
Last Line: Dwell the strange gods of heathendom!
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion; White Mountains, New Hampshire


MOUNT JOY, by ALLISON FUNK    Poem Source                    
First Line: If we live uphill
Last Line: Where we hear the baptists singing of heaven
Subject(s): Happiness; Mountains


MOUNT KAGU, by KAMO TARUHITO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mists of spring %hang on mount kagu
Last Line: Grew moss thick at their feet
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNT KINGSTON, by EDWIN M. CASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The veil of night-mist drawn aside
Last Line: And look down on a pigmy world.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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)


MOUNT SANTO TOMAS, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: These are the foothills
Last Line: Later that day, rain fell
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNT TABOR, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tabor's height a glory came
Last Line: And nothing left but christ alone.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a great snow
Last Line: Love all knowledge high- %est hope mortal desire!
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Mountain Climbing


MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only on the rarest occasions, when the blue air
Last Line: That way, as is said of certain hill creatures
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Fanatics And Fanaticism; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Volcanoes


MOUNTAIN, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are no mountains here
Last Line: Anyone who wants mountains %will have to build them in his soul
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAIN AFTERGLOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afterglow goldens the
Last Line: Night and night clouds %fold dark on the stars
Subject(s): Wasatch Mountains, Utah


MOUNTAIN AIR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me of progress if you will
Last Line: And leave me sun and mountain air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie
Last Line: And prairies too!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


MOUNTAIN AND RIVER, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not the mountains that tower
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAIN CHAPEL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chapel and gravestones, old and few
Last Line: This wind was old
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Mountains; Wales


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


MOUNTAIN DWELLING, by CH'ING KUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Things of the past are already long gone
Last Line: Plum blossoms fallen; gardenia just opening
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


MOUNTAIN FACING A MOUNTAIN (1), by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is holding onto a ledge
Last Line: Its own virtue, its own separateness
Subject(s): Greece; Mountains


MOUNTAIN IN A STORM, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky is angry
Subject(s): Mountains; Storms


MOUNTAIN IN THE SKY, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was it the wind they followed?
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAIN INSOMNIA, by ELSA THUESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: All through the black edges of night
Last Line: And I slept again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Night; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime


MOUNTAIN LIVING: 1, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down beneath the pines
Last Line: Idly comes and goes
Subject(s): Mountains; Valleys; Zen Buddhism


MOUNTAIN LIVING: 14, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like some pure clarity
Last Line: Becomes a bright pearl
Subject(s): Mountains; Valleys; Zen Buddhism


MOUNTAIN LOVERS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn's pale finger from her eye
Last Line: Their vigils, chant their threnodies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN MOMENT, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out across the morning
Last Line: Birches in the dawn!
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Eyes; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN POEM, by DAN QUISENBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He glides over snow %shifting weight
Last Line: Breathes mountain air %'see that dad?'
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAIN SONG, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have not where to lay my head
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAIN SONNETS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here let me pause by the lone eagle's nest
Last Line: To flush and thrill the visionary heart!
Subject(s): Blue Ridge Mountains


MOUNTAIN SPEECH, by HARRY COWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: High over all the loftiest heads of all the valley herds
Last Line: "this morn I do not know!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cowell, Henry
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN SPEED, by GEOFFREY WINTHROP YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, the winter joy of the flying of feet over snow-clad hill
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAIN TOP, by KAKINOMOTO HITOMARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the plum trees on the peak
Alternate Author Name(s): Workman; Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaru
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAIN TOP, by MARY REEDER WINGARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sky that you so loved has changed its gray
Last Line: Oh, can you share the mountain top with me?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN WATER, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have taken a drink from a wild fountain
Last Line: In the feathery green of the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINEER, by ROBERT NATHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He came from hills to comfortable plains
Subject(s): 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)


MOUNTAINS, by LAURA BULMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would not live where the prairies lie
Last Line: Could not be at home on the plain.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's fenced all round with mountains where we live
Last Line: Beyond the hollow, where I had a cousin . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by NORA E. HUFFMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somber ... Mysterious ... I love them
Last Line: And is heard through the heart alone.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rifted mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines
Last Line: Sailing up to holy heaven, like the anthems of a saint.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain seems to guard
Last Line: And take what highways bring.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by NATASHA SAJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before, when I lived in the mountains
Last Line: I will inhale that wish like oxygen
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAINS GROW UNNOTICED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For fellowship at night
Variant Title(s): Poem: 757; Poem: 76
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAINS IN THE GRAND CANYON, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each a primeval vastness, shaped by hands
Last Line: Abandoned quarry of the infinite.
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS KNOW, by CONCHA MELENDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love my country's lofty mountains!
Last Line: The mountains lofty and unmoved!
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Mountains; Travel


MOUNTAINS OF THE SOUL, by INGEMAR LECKIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hewn out of the azure,
Last Line: Brighter than day
Subject(s): Mountains


MOVING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Andrew and juliana moved seven times
Last Line: To a florida flower bed
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MT. RANIER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow-garmented, immense, / and holding audience
Last Line: Far-flashing monarch of a dead domain.
Subject(s): Mount Rainier; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MT. STUART, by J. A. LAURIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Riven, rent, and cragged
Last Line: We mountaineers unfurl old glory.
Subject(s): Beauty; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MUSINGS NEAR AQUAPENDENTE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye apennines! With all your fertile vales
Last Line: Rise, and to-morrow greet magnificent rome.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MUSINGS ON A COOL RETREAT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a little hidden pool
Last Line: The woolworth building, in the basement!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Pools; Ponds; 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


MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair
Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY FATHER'S GHOST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father's ghost would never hang around the house
Last Line: Come to me in living, my whole life long!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MY HEART UNFOLDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart unfolds with every leaf
Last Line: My heart unfolds with every leaf
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MY HILLS, by MARY MAPES KEESHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are but hills that from my window
Last Line: Has reached the skies.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY MOUNTAIN HOME, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees have grown so stout and tall
Last Line: And watch, and wait, and weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY MOUNTAINS, by JOAQUIN GOMEZ VERGARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am far from my country
Last Line: O my beautiful mountains!
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


MY NATIVE MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love my native mountains
Last Line: The fairest types of earth.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MYRRH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas is laughter, tinsel, light
Last Line: A dream of peace we follow still
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


MYSTERY OF CHRISTMAS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mystery of christmas fills the house
Last Line: It's built upon a birthday and a dream
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NATIVES OF ROCK, by GLENWAY WESCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire cut away
Last Line: Spikes, and lap the dew.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NATURE RHYMES: 6. WEATHER RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When juana wears her misty shawl
Last Line: Full well we know that rain will fall
Subject(s): Mountains;weather; Hills;downs (great Britain)


NATURE SAYS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature says, / these craggy hills that front the dawn
Last Line: Charged with my genius forth
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun
Last Line: By god-like boys.
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NAVIGATION, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evergreens have reasons
Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NEAPOLITAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naples seems mostly mountains and mules
Last Line: But to fancy them flies!
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mountains; Naples, Italy; Mules; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NEEDLES ROAD, by GERNIE HUNTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lost on a winding roadway
Last Line: And the curve of needles road!
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


NEVERSINK, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hills, the pride of all the coast
Last Line: Retirement's blest abode!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo
Last Line: Tribal drum, and the rockhead of taos mountain, remember that civilization is a transient sickness
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists


NEW YEAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Past slanting pastures new with snow
Last Line: Can make it last!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NIGHT, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


NIGHT CHILD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night child lifts himself from sleep
Last Line: Dark safely wraps the night - struck child
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NIGHT IN THE OZARKS, by OPAL HARDAWAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night, when you lay black velvet paws
Last Line: In man, in work, in lowly sod.
Subject(s): Night; Ozarks (mountains); Bedtime


NIGHT THOUGHTS, SIERRA, by WILLIAM HOWARTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Air of thin blue shadow. My campfire shivers
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


NO CEREMONY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Being forgotten is another kind of dying
Last Line: No mourners left
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NO GLACIER PUSHED ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sat down near a quartz - filled pudding stone
Last Line: At rest upon this catskill hilltop farm?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NO SILVER SWATH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This snail shell is an empty hall
Last Line: I mark my kinship with the snail
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NO STONE TO HEFT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The black earth welcomes the exploding seed
Last Line: Today I have no stone to heft and tote
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NO STRANGE FLOWERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tottering a little on unsteady feet
Last Line: In normandy
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NO WORDS ARE BORN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the parapets of outer space
Last Line: Lucid enough to tell the tale to me
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NOCTES AMBROSIANAE, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: From hemlock mountain's barren crest
Last Line: To charles and mary lamb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Lamb, Mary (1764-1847); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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)


NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES R. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here earth and sky and thudding hoofs of horses
Last Line: Bringing its elder presence -- and closed eyes.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NORTHBOUND CROWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know it is spring when I hear them talk
Last Line: The flight to the north is cluttered and loud
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NOT SO LONG GONE (FOR THE MAIDU), by DOC DACHTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down by the windmill
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


NOTE TO BE SEALED IN A BOTTLE:, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a star - flung castaway
Last Line: And offer me the great voyage home
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


NOTES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From my window %baeza meadows %in the bright moon!
Last Line: From the dog days
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Mountains; Spain


NOVEMBER DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This tattered day is a hand - me - down
Last Line: As winter sweeps in with ermine and pearls!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


O SPRUCE PINES ON THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O spruce pines on the cumberlands
Last Line: Upon the cumberland.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Spruce Trees


OCTOBER AGAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: October again
Last Line: Is harder to bear
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OCTOBER IN APPALACHIO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last katydid knocks its tambourine
Last Line: The stars press our bones into what black seam?
Subject(s): Appalachia; Mountains; Stones


OCTOBER RICHES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the helterskelter untidiness of leaves
Last Line: I am a gold leaf millionaire
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OCTOBER: SIERRA, by WILLIAM HOWARTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air is blue enough to scratch
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ODE ON THE HILLS OF GEORGIA, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night over georgia; mist across the heights
Last Line: Being powerless to live in loveliness
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Georgia (republic); Mountains


ODE TO A NUCLEAR FRIEZE, by NAN TOWNSEND DEGELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a last late sunday in october
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


OF MOUNTAINS, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All through the night I am aware
Last Line: His song!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OLD FARM ALONG NEW HIGHWAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A roadside barn stands shivering
Last Line: Watches with empty eyes
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OLD HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This old house wears a patina of dignity
Last Line: And will again. This old house is a home
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OLD HOUSE AT CHRISTMAS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas comes easily to this old house
Last Line: With all the love its wooden arms can hold!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OLD LAKE AGASSIZ, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We knew this valley was an ice-age lake
Last Line: With small whirlpools of milky light
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Lakes; Mountains; Travel; Valleys


OLD MAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: His spindly legs and arms still work
Last Line: And waits to join him when he comes
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, by ETTA MERRICK GRAVES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The grand old man of the mountain
Last Line: Through speeding time will reach!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OLD ORCHARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A drift of baldwins, bright as maple leaves
Last Line: For fruit and flower he shall never see?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OLD RED HEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In her good brown dress and bright red comb
Last Line: Is her last little feathery goodnight word
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OLD SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the hour of the dew
Last Line: It is the virgin of the peaks
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Roads; Spain; Travel


OLD VERMONT ROADS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old-time roads, they used to run
Last Line: Them roads the fathers used to travel.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ON A CLIFF ABOVE SEAL ROCKS, by DAVID YEZZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind us the city, the ocean below us
Last Line: Low and quotidian, difficult; difficult, low
Subject(s): Mountains


ON A FIRST VIEW OF THE GROUP CALLED THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I saw ye, mountains, the broad sun
Last Line: While peals resistless shook the trembling world!—
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Mountains; Seven Mountains (siebengebirge), Germany; 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 A HILL, by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring on a windswept hill!
Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature


ON A HILLSIDE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A friendly mountain I know
Last Line: Than all the world beside.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns
Last Line: His glory fills the air.
Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON A YANKEE HILL MORNING, by STEVE LAVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Barely smoking oak embers
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ON AUSTRALIAN HILLS, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, outward turning on her path in space
Last Line: But trust the guidance of the one who knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Australia; Mountains


ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this, when I was stationed at hsun-yang
Last Line: And am pleased with anyone who is even remotely human!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON BOOT HILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the prairie and through the pines
Last Line: And a star-speckled range to ride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Mountains; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


ON CHICATAWBUT HILL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: On chicatawbut hill I climbed
Last Line: On chicatawbut hill.
Subject(s): Memory; Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON CLINGMAN DOME, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The balsom buds are bluer
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Great Smoky Mountains


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 DUTY'S KNOB, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flush of a beautiful sunrise
Last Line: As I looked at it that day.
Subject(s): Dawn; Mountains; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON FINDING AN ARROWHEAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who left this mark upon my measured field?
Last Line: And wonder if I really own this land
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ON FLINT ROCK HILLS, by FRANCIS GALATIA YEOMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: On flint rock hills the twilight lies
Last Line: On flint rock hills.
Subject(s): Mountains; 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 LONG BOAT KEY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This key rides water like a narrow raft
Last Line: Others will follow whose days have just begun
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ON LOOKING AT A CONTOUR MAP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the light the map begins to live
Last Line: To childhood country with my youth restored
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh far away ye are, ye lovely hills
Last Line: Let its dark portals open -- let me die!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON STUDYING SEATED MAN WITH A HARP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the singing before homer is lost
Last Line: I try to hear
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ON TAKING FROM THE TOP TO BROADEN THE BASE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roll stones down on our head!
Last Line: To broaden its base
Subject(s): Mountains; Avalanches; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE DOWNS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A faint sea without wind or sun
Last Line: Time's deep dawn rise.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


ON THE HEIGHTS, by EDWARD DOWDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the needs of manhood satisfied!
Subject(s): Mountains


ON THE HILLS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep your brooding sorrows for dewy-misty hollows
Last Line: In the brooding hollows where no breezes are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE HILLS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For weeks the clouds had raked the hills
Last Line: Beyond the wall of mountains!
Subject(s): Ossipee (lake), New Hampshire; White Mountains, New Hampshire


ON THE LOSS OF THE PRIVATEER BRIGANTINE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The armstrong arrived in the port of fayal
Last Line: May it ever be ready, the britons to maul, %as the armstrong behaved in the road of fayal
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812


ON THE MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When from this mighty mountain's top
Last Line: Its sudden fall or rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The top of the world and an empty
Last Line: We are so little and oh, so wise!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


ON THE MOUNTAINS, by ALCMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, on the mountain peaks high up
Last Line: A round of silver-bright cheese-cake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills
Last Line: But when will the earth respond?
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


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)


ON THE SIERRA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the glorious mountains, proud and bleak
Last Line: So far from heaven, that sight of god is lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THUNDER HILL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The folks who live on thunder hill
Last Line: Lightning can't strike the same place twice!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ONCE MORE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more by the brook the alder leaves
Last Line: Snorting and bounding heavily before me
Subject(s): Deer; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ONE THAT GOT AWAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is of you I dream through drowsy winter nights
Last Line: Come streaking from its depths to fin your nose at me!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ONE-YEAR-OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He laughs and claps those dimpled hands
Last Line: Came here to stay!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ORACLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I am the old one, dispensing wisdom
Last Line: I forget ... I forget ... I try to forget
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ORANGE BLOSSOMS AND SIERRA NIGHT, by SAMUEL ALEXANDER WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet scent of blossoms, through the canyons wide
Last Line: I walk with still, in orange blossom scent.
Subject(s): Night; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Bedtime


ORPHAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Milk - white with nacre hooves and horn
Last Line: To see the last white unicorn
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OUR HERITAGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is our due and this our heritage
Last Line: We cannot spare one bird song from the field!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OUR HILL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Teddy and jock and I play on a hill all day
Last Line: But it wouldn't be safe for you!
Subject(s): Children; Climbing; Danger; Mountains; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OUR LOSSES HAVE BEEN SLIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one will miss him very much
Last Line: No one will miss him very much
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OUR MOUNTAIN, by PEDRO PRADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: We who dwell in these deep valleys
Last Line: The calm grandeur of the gift
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Valleys


OUR VALLEY, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in july and august
Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OUT HERE, by ROBERT HARLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Driving through the mountains
Last Line: Bits of blue that were my coat %no longer keeping me warm
Subject(s): Mountains


OUT OF THE FIREFLY NIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft and dark after the warm rain
Last Line: I grew all night like the new corn in the hills
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


OVER THE MOUNTAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like dreary prison walls
Last Line: O beating heart, be still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Mountains; Dead, The; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OX-EYE DAISY, by LOIS BUNSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hill narrates in flower
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


OZARKS PICTURESQUE, by DORIS ELIZABETH KROETER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Purpling hills, with silver mist enshrining
Last Line: Thanking god that beauty fills his soul.
Subject(s): Beauty; Ozarks (mountains)


PACKET OF SEED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This wrinkled seed I hold in my hand
Last Line: By the soundless shout of the bursting seed!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PARTINGS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: With house and home went title to the tree
Last Line: That went into the growing of the tree
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, listen, mary mine
Last Line: And the apennine walks abroad with the storm.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PASSING T'IEN-MEN STREET IN CH'ANG-AN AND .. DISTANT VIEW OF CHUNG-NAN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow has gone from chung-nan; spring is almost come
Last Line: Turns his head and looks at the mountains, -- not one man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PATTERN FOR THE FUTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see a neat and tidy world
Last Line: With choice phased out, and love outlawed
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PEELING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was no song for that brown chore
Last Line: It seemed a privilege for a while
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PELION AND OSSA FLOURISH SIDE BY SIDE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And pours forth streams more sweet than castaly
Subject(s): Mountains


PEOPLE ASK THE WAY TO COLD MOUNTAIN, by HAN SHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You'd return to the very center
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


PERSPECTIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I had lost myself in woe
Last Line: My grief was an important thing
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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


PICKING WILD BLACKBERRIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one but a bear should pick wild blackberries
Last Line: He shambled off in lumbering retreat
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PIKE'S PEAK, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Throned on the west this naked patriarch
Last Line: With longing for his errant bride, the sea.
Subject(s): Mountains; Pikes Peak, Colorado; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PLACE FOR A BOY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A field is a place for a small boy to play
Last Line: A field is a place for a small boy to grow
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PLANTING PURPLE POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not with prayers and incantations
Last Line: This is my journey to peru
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PLAYGROUND INCIDENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The eagle soared above the playground with
Last Line: Great wings were there
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


POEM LEFT IN SOUGHDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I the poet gary snyder
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


POET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poet doesn't live on love or roses
Last Line: Green words will always ripen in his mouth
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stones in my heart
Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe.
Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks


POND & STREAM, by ANGELA KARSZO    Poem Source                    
First Line: You throw yourself in -
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


POOR OLD WOMAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A spate of sorrow drowned her -
Last Line: A spate of sorrow drowned her
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PORTRAIT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He walks along, unnoticing, with spring
Last Line: And climb, unmoved, a parapet of stars
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


POSSESSION, by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me are given many things
Last Line: "the calm and peace of eventide."
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Nature; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


POSTSCRIPT TO A SNOW DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You asked me what on earth I did
Last Line: To make a proper list!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One potato
Last Line: Three potato %four!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


POWER OF SNOW, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


PRAISE BE FOR MUD!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Praise be for mud when the frost goes out
Last Line: Praise be for mud!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by ANONYMOUS - NATIVE AMERICAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: "young man, chieftain / reared within the mountain"
Last Line: Spirit of the mountains
Subject(s): Mountains;native Americans - Religion;prayer; Hills;downs (great Britain)


PREPARING FOR WINTER, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Despite the storm it's dry again
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


PRESIDIO HILL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sabre and cross on this historic crown
Last Line: On old presidio hill.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; San Francisco; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blacken thy heavens, jove
Last Line: As I!
Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians


PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cover thy spacious heavens, zeus
Last Line: As I!
Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians


PROMETHEUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One after one the stars have risen and set
Last Line: And patience, which at last shall overcome.
Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians


PROPHECY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These mountains long to show their worth
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PROSPECTOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nuggets of wisdom, I've been told
Last Line: I'm off to the mountains with grubstake and mule
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


PSALM 83; A LAMENT, by PRESTON MERCHANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Speak. They have dug a well below the mountain
Last Line: When it falls toward you and your image %is cracked cold, unrecognizable
Subject(s): Mountains


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)


PURPLE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late afternoon; see what I can see
Last Line: These boundaries were always
Subject(s): California; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel


QUALITY OF LIFE, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A load of apples going out
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


QUEEN MOUNTAIN, by BLANCHE BROWNE BRYANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I marvel as you chameleonize
Last Line: That's when I like you best.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


QUESTION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spirit, body
Last Line: Become of %me?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


RADHA TO RAM LILA, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Still in the moonlight gleam himalayan snows
Last Line: And till a tongue of ashes speaks again.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Himalayas (mountains); Dead, The; Burials


RAINBOW OF A DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunday was a day to savor and remember
Last Line: I wonder if we'll see again such a rainbow of a day?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


RECEIPT FOR BLACKBERRY PIE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take juicy blackberries, sweet with august sun
Last Line: And there is more than a receipt to learn
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


RECLUSE ON ORPHAN MOUNTAIN, by LIN HO-CHING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Until deep into mountain and river
Last Line: Log for a bridge - %I'll build a little hut
Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism


RED CANOE, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that he had grown older lame and stiff
Last Line: I have tumbled down and down toward that blue distance %if nothing can hold me on the mountain it wi
Subject(s): Mountains; Sea


RED EAGLE - THE MOUNTAIN WITH WINGS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Mountains


RED FOX, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The red fox sits alone upon a rock
Last Line: Title returns to him when it grows dark!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


RED HILLS '83., by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crimsonflames %swooped the rolls
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


REID AT FAYAL, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cliff-locked port and a bluff sea wall
Last Line: In tale and song.
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


RELAY AT EVENING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dogs send signals in the hollow dusk
Last Line: Strange and deep
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


REPORTER AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must record important happenings
Last Line: I wonder what the scale will be
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


REQUIESCAT IN PACE!, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O my heart, my heart is sick a-wishing and awaiting
Last Line: And veil thy breast with icicles, and thy brow with snow!
Subject(s): Family Life; God; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


REST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills call, the dew-glad morning hills
Last Line: The mother hills where weary men find sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Mountains; Rest; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


RICHARD RECITES THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Four score and seven years... The boy's head
Last Line: And the tall gaunt man with the bowed head
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


RIDING UP THE TANANA RIVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw the mountains moving to the sea -
Last Line: And too thick to drink
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


ROAD AND HILLS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall go away
Last Line: Here, in this light, there is no end. . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Wanders And Wandering; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ROAD TO TRES PIEDRAS, by LEO ROMERO    Poem Source                    
First Line: What a lone lonely %road
Last Line: On a remote horizon
Subject(s): Mountains


ROCK ART PRAYER, by RON PICKUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bathed icons of
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ROCKBOUND PASS IN JANUARY, by JON OLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cutting foot holds
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER AEGINA, GREECE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many the feet that filled
Last Line: And you have perished!
Subject(s): Abandonment; Greece; Mountains; Ruins


RUNAWAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caraway and tansy, catnip and fever few
Last Line: Growing in a garden with herbs and marigold
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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


SABRINA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Isle of the ocean, say, whence comest thou?
Last Line: Thou spark from the fallen one's wide flaming wing.
Subject(s): Azores; Islands; Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


SAILOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: His thoughts are like a brook that always runs
Last Line: When tides are always pulling at his heart
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


SAME DOOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see you in this scattered company
Last Line: It is small comfort to me that you are not alone
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SAN RAFAEL MOUNTAIN, by PAUL WILLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It takes a while for the country to settle
Last Line: As we are known
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature


SAVING OF THE LEAVES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old leaves are precious
Last Line: Behind the rake
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SAYING GRACE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father bowed his head and waited, still
Last Line: Thanksgiving was my father, saying grace
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SCHOOL DROP-OUTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You see them standing on street corners
Last Line: Without care
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SCORPION SUMMER, by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees on the november hillsides
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SEA SHELL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It took a pell mell storm
Last Line: What sculptor carved this curving carapace?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SECRETS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some secrets of the winter woods
Last Line: To those who see - and want to know
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SEPTEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fox grapes hang purple on the hillside vines
Last Line: This is the rich fulfillment of a dream
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SEQUOIA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This tree was ancient when the fishermen
Last Line: Upon earth's oldest living monument
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SERMONS THERE ARE, MUST BE A MILLION, by UNKNOWN+125    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Your view will be blocked %by the others
Subject(s): Mountains; Temples; Zen Buddhism


SHADY HILLS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shady hills, long shady hills there be
Last Line: Fingers the valley with unshadowed light.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SHARING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My flower bed grows more than weeds and
Last Line: I thought I lived here all alone
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SIDNEY LANIER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was aware of unheard symphonies
Last Line: He writes the lyric for some deathless score
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SIERRA GRANDE DEL NORTE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like fragments of an uncompleted world
Last Line: A line of battle-tents in everlasting snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Variant Title(s): By The Sun-down Seas;the Sierras
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SIERRA KID, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed slimgullion, morgan mine,
Subject(s): Explorers; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


SIERRA NEVADA IN MARCH, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: What an ugly month. Nothing live
Subject(s): March (month); Sierra Nevada Mountains


SIERRA SONG, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in the foothills
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SIERRA TRAIL DUST, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Orchid-like, gold mimulus cling
Last Line: With crystal dust and powdered clay.
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


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)


SINCE NINEVEH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The levelled cities sowed with salt
Last Line: And hear again the ancient, why?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SITTING ALONE IN CHING-T'ING MOUNTAIN, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flocks of birds fly high and vanish
Last Line: Only the ching-t'ing mountain and me
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Mountains


SKETCH, by YI HYONGGI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each time I visit the mountains
Last Line: Hiding somewhere in the bushes for any chance
Subject(s): Mountains


SKUNK, by WILL STAPLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I could cage her
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun
Last Line: And winter pulled a sheet over his head
Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry And Poets


SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Words chase each other through my mind
Last Line: Then I get back to sleep again
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SLIGHT DROPS IN LEDGE POOLS, by JEFF JONES    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SMALL BOY SLEEPING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a breathless moment in the night
Last Line: For boys who sleep unguarded in the dark
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SMALL WAR, by GABRIEL FERRATER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They brought anti-tank mines, useless
Last Line: All emblematic, immemorial
Subject(s): Death - Children; Fights; Pyrenees (mountains), Europe; War


SMOKE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smokehouse smelled of hickory chips
Last Line: The smokehouse flavor, fresh upon his tongue
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


SNOWFLOWER, by TAMARA DOWNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, daniel I will show you where
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SNOWY MOUNTAINS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Higher and still more high
Last Line: The mists that dance and drive before the sun.
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SOLITUDE, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, mountain, wearing diadem of stars
Last Line: Dark mountain, where pale dogwood waits for spring.
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Mountains; Solitude; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


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


SOMETIMES BEES SPEND THE NIGHT AWAY FROM HOME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes bees spend the night away from home
Last Line: To the hidden home hive?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SONG FOR MY BIRTHDAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am older now
Last Line: Or the snow a sheltering wing?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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 OF ENVY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the chilly landscape goes the fat and drowsy bear
Last Line: No income tax, no ration books, no war communiques!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


SONG TO THE MOUNTAINS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mountains loom upon the path we take
Last Line: Resting there at last we sing our song
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing;mountains; Hills;downs (great Britain)


SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water
Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair!
Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


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


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 57, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain ways one summer
Last Line: Cold cheek to cheek at last!
Subject(s): Mountains; Trees


SONGS OF TRAVEL: 16, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the highlands, in the country places
Last Line: Life and death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sashay with shakespeare. Scribblers can cavort
Last Line: Your words are fresh with an immortal dew
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SONNET, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stand upon the mountains, 'mid a sea
Last Line: My pinions lift me on to heaven's own world of light.
Subject(s): Mountains


SONNET: 1. A MOUNTAIN SPRING, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet
Last Line: Whose likeness is the faithless face of rose.
Subject(s): Mountains; Springs (water); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns
Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind!
Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain
Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before.
Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue


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)


SONNETS: 6. THE BERNINA SNOW-MOUNTAINS FROM THE VALE OF ROSEG, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vista seen, like truth down glooms of thought
Last Line: Beacons thy eternal snow's refulgent shield.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Soul; Truth; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONORA FOOTHILL WINTER RAINSTORM, by DAVID KUEHNERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rain dropping heavily
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SORRY, by DOC DACHTLER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SOUND OF THE WIND IN THE PINES AN AFTERNOON AND NIGHT ..., by HSU YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Courtyard-covering white dew
Last Line: Preaching 'no birth'
Subject(s): Monks; Mountains; Preaching And Preachers; Zen Buddhism


SOURCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What tick and tock?
Last Line: Brave scientist!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT; FOR KENNETH REXROTH, by PHILIP WHALEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always say I won't go back to the mountains
Last Line: Like they say, 'four times up, %three times down.' I'm still on the mountain
Subject(s): Meditation; Mountains


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


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 12, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I come on a visit
Last Line: Seems to go up
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel


SPENDING THE WOODPILE WELL INTO JUNE, by JEAN PAPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oaks are casting off
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SPINNER OF FROST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frost spider, spinning a silvery web
Last Line: Frost cannot hold flame
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SPIRIT OF THE SMOKIES, by MABELLE RUTHERFORD MURDOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Slowly drifting from the campfires
Last Line: Benediction to our prayer.
Subject(s): Smoky Mountains


SPIRIT OF THE WOOD, by PAUL BAUDIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep in the silence of the forest
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SPLITTING CEDAR, by MIKE DIXON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SPLITTING FIREWOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wood was tough: his stance was wide
Last Line: The years stack up like a rank of wood
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SPRING CLEANING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roll up the snow fence, winter - staggered
Last Line: To strut and hop and flutter!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


SPRING NIGHT AT BAMBOO PAVILLION, PRESENTING A POEM ..., by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night is quiet. All creatures are resting
Last Line: You prefer picking ferns in this unknown place
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Mountains


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)


STAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fragrance of the pine is myrrh
Last Line: The steadfast christmas star has shone
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


STEALING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother taught me how to steal potatoes
Last Line: Then feast
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


STONES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young man walked in stones and stubble
Last Line: He shares a field with them today
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


STOPPING AT THE STATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The train made a ceremony of arrival
Last Line: And a quiet huff huff puff puff puff puff
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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 IN THE HILLS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Close on the heel of night there came
Last Line: I saw the moonlight on her tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D.
Subject(s): Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STORM KING (MOUNTAIN-PEAK IN THE OLYMPICS), by MARGARET LENORE PARTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft glow of summer sun
Last Line: Storm king, you hold your throne!
Subject(s): Olympic (mountains), Washington


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)


STOVE WOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sugar maples herd within the grove
Last Line: I still have tears to mourn the dryad's fall
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


STRANGER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I almost hate her - this stranger
Last Line: Stranger in my house
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


STRATUM I: PETRARCH, by THOMAS KLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The peak ahead, the slope behind me
Last Line: By noon, thin air. Then distance
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountains


STRAY CAT NAMED MEECH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he came to us out of the wet woods
Last Line: In the woods
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


STRENGTH FROM THE HILLS, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up unto the hills! Thy strength is there
Last Line: And god himself more near!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Mountains; Strength; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STRENGTH OF THE HILLS, by LULU W. MITCHELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will lift up my eyes to the hills
Subject(s): Mountains


STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming back over the col between
Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming back over the col between
Last Line: Standing sentry for the avalanche
Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self


STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone all day
Last Line: I have shaken hands with lightning
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the sea, which is their sky, they rise
Last Line: The intolerable thought none can ignore.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


SUDDEN RAIN IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, by STEPHEN BURT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plush hills, the raw materials, fall away
Last Line: I'm not with you. I will be with you soon
Subject(s): Absence; Mountains; Rain


SUMMER HILLS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will go back to the summer hills
Last Line: The young, glad days, when we walked together
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SUN BATHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She never heard of helios or ra
Last Line: As the sun god laid his hand upon her back
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SUNRISE ON THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chimney rocks are huge chimney
Last Line: We had in getting there.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Dawn; Sunrise


SUNRISE OVER THE SIERRAS, by HENRY MEADE BLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mind me how one day-break long ago
Last Line: And saw jehovah in the rising flame!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Sunrise


SUNSET AMID THE BUFFALO MOUNTAINS (N.E. VICTORIA), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the boulder'd majesty
Last Line: Dreamlike steals over each dim range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SUNSET ON CRYSTAL LAKE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sunset streams across the lake
Last Line: Water and sky grow dark together
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


SUNSET ON THE CUMBERLAND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the 'chimneys' yesterday
Last Line: That sunset scene admiring.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Evening; Sunset; Twilight


SUNSET ON THE CUNIMBLA VALLEY, BLUE MOUNTAINS, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat upon a windy mountain height
Last Line: Of mountain life is worthy his twenty-four.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SUNSET ON THE ORANGE MOUNTAINS, by ADRIAN BERKOWITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apollo, homeward bound
Last Line: Their gloom o'er hill and dale.
Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; 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


SWATHED ROUND IN MIST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swathed round in mist and crown'd with cloud
Last Line: Is palpable to sense and sight.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SWEET MOUNTAINS - YE TELL ME NO LIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To lift her brows on you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 722; Poem: 74
Subject(s): Mountains


SWEET SMELL OF CEDAR SUCKED OUT MY BREATH, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SWIMMING, by ELAINE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swimming just below the surface
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada 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


SYNOPSIS OF A FAILED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every simile is elegy
Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TAHOE, by FERNANDO ALEGRIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lake of fire open in the mountain
Last Line: You glide in like a sailboat undetected, %unloading on my dock created being
Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains


TAHOE IN AUGUST, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness
Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women


TAHOE IN AUGUST, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness
Last Line: The mother she looks like stands at the counter snapping beans
Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women


TAKING TO THE HILLS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If walking, like wine, only abets a sad mood
Subject(s): Walking; Nature; Mountains; Love; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TANKA: WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING, by WAKAYAMA BOKUSUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mountaintop: as far as I can see
Subject(s): Mountains


TAOS MOUNTAIN, by JOHN BALABAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain is there when you walk to safeway
Last Line: Watering their ponies in blue lake creek, %adding adobe rooms through the thousand years
Subject(s): Mountains


TAPPING THE SAP BUSH - 1918, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not spring, and not winter either
Last Line: But sapping time
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TEACHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is a man whose hand has pointed out
Last Line: For love of life and living and for laughter
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TEACHER REMEMBERED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her thoughts were never folded in a book
Last Line: And see her face on every turning page
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TEJUNGA VALLEY IN JUNE, by BESSIE PRYOR PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stand with me, nanette
Last Line: Sense but the sweetness—of the thing called life!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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


THANK GOD FOR MOUNTAINS, by ACHSA W. SPRAGUE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see them in their beauty once again
Last Line: No more forever.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THANKSGIVING HYMN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A scarlet thread of wonder
Last Line: Runs through the woof of days
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


THAT HILL IS TOO HIGH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Hill: my hate
Subject(s): Mountains


THAT WAS A CHRISTMAS!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lean years were the best years, looking back -
Last Line: That was a christmas to warm me all my life!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


THE ADIRONDACS; A JOURNAL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We crossed champlain to keeseville with our friends
Last Line: As if one riddle of the sphinx were guessed.
Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ALPINE FLOWERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meek dwellers mid yon terror-stricken cliffs!
Last Line: And freer dreams of heaven.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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 ARMSTRONG AT FAYAL, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the sun sets red, the moon shines white
Last Line: Of the yankee privateer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy


THE BACCHAE: CHORAL SONG, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the mountains wild 'tis sweet
Last Line: The bacchanal goes forth and treads the echoing ground.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BARREN HILL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my home, a long straight hill
Last Line: Than ever it could give.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Home; 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 BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF PENICUIK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills
Last Line: And drink the pure water from their crystal rills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE BECKONING HILLS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a motto that hangs by my desk I can read
Last Line: The peace that my nature would find.
Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: One evening when the sun was low
Last Line: In the big rock candy mountains
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills;downs (great Britain)


THE BLUE HILLS OF MILTON, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have travelled o'er our country
Last Line: Near boston by the sea.
Subject(s): Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BONNIE SIDLAW HILLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie clara, will you go to the bonnie sidlaw hills
Last Line: Chorus—
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE BRECON BEACONS AND THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair, shining mountains of my pilgrimage
Last Line: While I so spring, as if I could not fade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had been wandering for many days
Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song.
Variant Title(s): The White Mountains
Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE BROKEN PROMISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the crisp of fall
Last Line: And a broken promise is their doom.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares; Human Race; Bedtime


THE BUGLER FROM THE PEAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this cry that sudden seems to shake
Last Line: The bull-elk bugles midst the topmost peaks!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Night; Snow; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime


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 CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave
Last Line: And dolphins gambol in the lion's den!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians


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 COMFORT OF THE HILLS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here have I wandered oft these many years
Last Line: God's angelus, is sighing in the trees.
Subject(s): Comfort; God; Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun
Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray!
Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; 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 DIFFICULT LIFE OF A YOKOHAMA LEAF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each train that passes
Last Line: By the delightful discovery drugstore.
Subject(s): Leaves; Mountains; Trees; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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 DISTANT MOUNTAIN-RANGE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They beckon from their sunset domes afar
Last Line: Dreams of a glory deeper than he sees.
Subject(s): Blue Mountains, Maine


THE DOWNS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely
Last Line: He masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DOWNS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the downs high to the cool sky
Last Line: And the scent of the parching grass!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE EXILE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I have lost the mountains, I
Last Line: I see the mountains in my dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Exiles; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE EYE IN THE ROCK, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A high rock face above flathead lake
Last Line: Painted this eye that the rock might see.
Subject(s): Admiration; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Stones; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Granite; Rocks


THE FAIREST, BRIGHTEST, HUES OF ETHER FADE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of harmony, above all earthly care
Subject(s): Peace; Mountains


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 FAR MOUNTAINS, by ARTHUR JONSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The far mountains have a crown of white
Last Line: As they tramp the delectable solitudes.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the story to your sons
Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore!
Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America


THE FORESTS OF THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lone waumbek methna! Who dares to profane
Last Line: What the red man has hallowed the white man will keep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; New Hampshire; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE FOUNTAINS OF ASHOKAN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Henceforth what dream can e'er efface
Last Line: Would quaff new beauty in the glass!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains


THE FRONTIER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the glorious purple line
Last Line: Greeting the purple carpathians!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): The Carpathians
Subject(s): Carpathian Mountains, Hungary


THE FUTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After ten thousand centuries have gone
Last Line: And, if akin to him, akin in vain.
Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE GRANITE MOUNTAIN, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a mountain, lone it lies
Last Line: Find a refuge for the night.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, long long"
Last Line: And the grass on the mountain
Subject(s): Grass;mountains;native Americans; Hills;downs (great Britain);indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mountains, that far off lift up your heads
Last Line: O brother-heart, with thee my spirit warms!
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 9
Subject(s): Green Mountains, Vermont


THE HILL TOP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The burly driver at my side
Last Line: The whole round world beside!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILL-FLOWERS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moving through the dew, moving through the dew
Last Line: Moving through the dew, moving through the dew.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILL-VALLEYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hill-valleys, the cool valleys, valleys that I / know
Last Line: To your dear love waiting and your own home light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS, by RAY D. BLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw the hills in childhood years
Last Line: Against a changeless sky.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no joy of earth that thrills
Last Line: Clad on with sleep and memory.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my soul, let us go unto our hills
Last Line: O my soul, let us go unto our hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS, by A. J. PATCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Born of the ice, the children of the ancient
Last Line: Till the shadows of the twilight steal along the old hill-trail.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS ARE TIPPED WITH SUNSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Mountains; Walking; Nature; Weariness


THE HILLS OF CARRARA, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst a vale of springing leaves
Last Line: Responsive to the charm of those who -touch it well!
Subject(s): Carrara, Italy; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS OF WALES (TO MEMORY OF THOMAS ELLIS & M. LLEWELYN WILLIAMS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly the ages come and go
Last Line: The hills remain.
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE HILLS WE LOVE, by GRACE LOWE BROADHEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are hills down near the south seas
Last Line: Are the only hills we love.
Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HIMALAYAS BY NIGHT, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My pathway seems the hem of very night
Last Line: The gleaming titans naked neath the moon!
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains)


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 70. THE HILL-SUMMIT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This feast-day of the sun, his altar there
Last Line: And the last bird fly into the last light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE JOY OF THE HILLS, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ride on the mountain tops, I ride
Last Line: My body's a bough in the wind, my heart a bird!
Subject(s): 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 LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern sky of azure hue
Last Line: From out the mountain lake.
Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Trees; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew
Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill.
Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE HILL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, here the air is sweet and still
Last Line: I think I am its mother!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE HILL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a little hill, a round green hill, in my own country
Last Line: For the song I knew in the dusk and dew and the little green hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Irish; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE PATH, by SALLIE P. FITZHUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It winds across a little hill
Last Line: To the haven of my heart.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LONESOME HILL, by LILLIAS C. NEVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low I hear the night wind
Last Line: Past the lonesome hill.
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE LONG HILL, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must have passed the crest a while ago
Last Line: The rest of the way will be only going down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The long trail calls!
Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG WAY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two miles of ridin' from the school, without a bit of trouble
Last Line: That sunset fadin' yellow through the notches of the hills?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE LUCKFLOWER, by HARVEY W. FLINK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon a rugged hill-side
Last Line: Upon the mountain sides.
Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Flowers; Mountains; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LURE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw night leave her halos down
Last Line: When south-east winds are blowing low.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Wind; 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 MOST-SACRED MOUNTAIN, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Space, and the twelve clean winds of heaven
Last Line: In the white windy presence of eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whosoever shall say to thee
Last Line: Swallow thee.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain held the town as in a shadow
Last Line: Gave them their marching orders and was moving.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A golden cloud slept for her pleasure
Last Line: Down to the desert still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain heaves before me, green and gray
Last Line: Within this loftier sphere where ye do reign.
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Altar whereon the lordly sacrifice
Last Line: As sings the ocean to the listening shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What wrecks of time and storm are crumbling here!
Last Line: To faiths that blaze immaculately bright.
Subject(s): 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 MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If, the rude mountain turf adorning
Last Line: And had bloom'd and died unseen.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE MOUNTAIN HEART'S-EASE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting
Last Line: Thy face is shining still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN LILAC, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the hills
Last Line: Upon the hills.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN MAID, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the mountain maid, new hampshire!
Last Line: Is the rarest of them all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN MAIDENS; A CANTATA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars die out, and the moon grows dim
Last Line: We are safely home at last!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN MAY SEEM VERY HIGH, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: In my small picture reading book
Subject(s): Mountains; Pictures


THE MOUNTAIN OF SKELETONS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain strikes into a clouded sky
Last Line: In what forgotten war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Mountains; Skeletons; Soldiers; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LOVERS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love scorns degrees! The low he lifteth high
Last Line: Thro' the long years cold harborage found therein.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN SAT UPON THE PLAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of dawn, the ancestor
Subject(s): Mountains


THE MOUNTAIN SQUATTER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Herein my mountain home
Last Line: All west of gundagai!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Horses; Mountains; Sheep; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN STORM, by MILLARD FILLMORE BUMGARNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stand up on high, ye crags and peaks
Last Line: And sunshine paints the crags again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN TO THE PINE, by CLARENCE HAWKES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou tall, majestic monarch of the wood
Last Line: And the infinite stars in heaven are old to me.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAINEER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, at the eagle's height
Last Line: And god is alone with him.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAINS, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind blows upon them salt-edged from the ocean
Last Line: And the dipper all alone in the north!
Subject(s): 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 MOUNTAINS OF GLAMORGAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains of glamorgan
Last Line: That look towards the sea.
Subject(s): Mountains; Mystery; Nature; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE MOUNTAINS OF MERAN AT SUNRISE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like snow-white tents, their tapering forms
Last Line: Bloom in the crystal air.
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Mountains; Sun; Sunrise; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAINS STOOP TO HILLS ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains stoop to hills and hills to stones
Last Line: Whose stones and water carve a symphony.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN; PROFILE NOTCH, FRANCONIA, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All round the lake the wet woods shake
Last Line: Imaginary brief existence!
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


THE PAGAN SAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this rock-girdled hight / these twenty barren years
Last Line: And, ah, it may not be! ...
Subject(s): Dawn; Memory; Mountains; Prayer; Solitude; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE PAPS OF DANA, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains stand, and stare around
Last Line: Taught a little modesty!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE PASS OF THE SIERRA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night above their rocky bed
Last Line: And lead in freedom's van!
Subject(s): Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Sierra Nevada Mountains; Slavery; Serfs


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 PASSING MOON, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my loggia bright I watch to-night
Last Line: Yet sail another sea.
Subject(s): Life; Moon; Mountains; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


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 POEMS OF BIG STICK: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been to tientai
Last Line: Only brings men pain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Buddha; Buddhists; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Towering cliffs were the home I chose
Last Line: What good are empty names
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 10, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the cliffs I sat alone
Last Line: The moon is the hub of the mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Caverns; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 131, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born thirty years ago
Last Line: To lie in a stream and wash out my ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Retirement; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 133, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I can't bear to watch birds play
Last Line: And heading south for cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 157, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain has so many wonders
Last Line: Unless it's clear you can't get through
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 16, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People ask the way to cold mountain
Last Line: You would be here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 169, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I escaped to cold mountain
Last Line: I'm happy here in the cliffs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Mountains; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 175, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The place where I've retired
Last Line: When I first feel the sun's heat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 191, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cinnabar hills rise up to the clouds
Last Line: Vine linked to vine stream joined to stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 199, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On ancient rocks are ancient tracks
Last Line: No need to ask if it's east or west
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 203, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above cold mountain the moon shines alone
Last Line: Buried in the skandhas submerged in the body
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 205, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My true home is on cold mountain
Last Line: I can go anywhere everywhere is perfect
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 207, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tientai mountains are my home
Last Line: The joys of roaming free are wonderful indeed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Freedom; Happiness; Mountains; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 213, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hiked yesterday to the summit
Last Line: Is now a pile of ashes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hiking; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 219, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People who wander among clouds
Last Line: In spring the birds kuan-kuan
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 224, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I enjoy the simple path
Last Line: Until the moon comes up cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 226, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see tientai summit
Last Line: I've always loved friends of the way
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Buddha; Buddhists; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 256, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where cold mountain dwells in peace
Last Line: Resting on a perilous ledge
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 259, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the joys of the mountains
Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 26, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I came to cold mountain
Last Line: Heaven and earth can crumble and change
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Comfort; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 261, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The floodplain river is wide
Last Line: Everywhere spreads its fame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 263, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rising beyond the sky
Last Line: Tientai stands unrivaled
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 274, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold cliff's remoteness is what I like
Last Line: But the pearl of my mind stays safe
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Old Age; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 278, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I sat before the cliffs
Last Line: A mind without a care
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 282, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a lofty mountain peak
Last Line: A song in which there is no zen
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Zen Buddhism; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 287, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is nothing but clouds
Last Line: He remains a man beyond form
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 290, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Relaxing below cold cliff
Last Line: Reading the poems of the ancients
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 297, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is a leakproof cliff
Last Line: I'm content to laugh and sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 300, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On cold mountain road
Last Line: What are my signs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 301, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is so cold
Last Line: An old man survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 302, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain I live on
Last Line: It's always deserted
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 303, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain's remoteness
Last Line: He would know the tune
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 304, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among high cliffs / there's plenty of breeze
Last Line: A white-haired old man
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Old Age; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 31, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain man lives under thatch
Last Line: A shelf full of nothing but books
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Mountains; Reading; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 32, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who takes the cold mountain road
Last Line: And sit with me in the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 35, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trail to cold mountain is faint
Last Line: Year after year no spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 4, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking for a refuge
Last Line: He forgot the way he came
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Taoism; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 44, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I usually live in seclusion
Last Line: The spring is dry but not the stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 48, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath high cliffs I live alone
Last Line: My dipper on a branch click clack
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I reached cold mountain
Last Line: Suddenly both eyes filled with tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 6, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains are so cold
Last Line: Looks in vain for the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 71, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone lives in a mountain gorge
Last Line: He stands alone steadfast
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 9, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I longed to visit the eastern cliff
Last Line: And slept with a cloud for a pillow
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 17, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have millions of gathas
Last Line: All you'll see is mountains
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 45, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up high the trail turns steep
Last Line: To wait for that lone crane once more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


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 PRESENCE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain statelier lifts his blue-veiled head
Last Line: "truth's simplest message: ""'t is by love ye live."
Subject(s): Blue Mountains, Maine


THE RIVER AND THE HILL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And they shook their sweetness out in their sleep
Last Line: "of that hard and senseless hill!"
Subject(s): 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 ROAD TO GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain road goes up and down
Last Line: The lonely road to gundagai.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Kisses; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE SILENCE OF THE HILLS, by WILLIAM PRESCOTT FOSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The windy forest, rousing from its sleep
Last Line: In god's great day, when all that sleep shall wake!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SKY LOVES THE TALL HILLS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: With coverlet of blue
Subject(s): Mountains


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed
Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears!
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SLEEPING GIANT, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O for some language from on high
Last Line: Still looking up to god.
Subject(s): Mountains; Yellowstone National Park; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun
Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SNOW ON SADDLE MOUNTAIN, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The only thing that can be relied on
Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SONNET OF THE MOUNTAIN, by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from afar these mountain tops I view
Last Line: In them the snows, in me the fires abide.
Subject(s): 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)


THE SUMMITS, by VICTOR DE LAPRADE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will go and drink the waters pure that feed the rolling river
Last Line: Shall never guess the wayfarer returned is even he.
Subject(s): Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory; Dead, The


THE THRUSH AND POLYPHEMUS, by JACK MERTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A mountain oak core-riven by a gale
Last Line: "I see, polyphemus, where your rocks miss hitting."
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE TRUMPETS OF DOOLKARNEIN, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With awful walls, for glooming, that possessed
Last Line: But heaven and earth abide their time, and smile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians


THE VANISHED MOUNTAINS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Miles upon miles they toss, the wrathful waves
Last Line: For here the snowy peaks are seen no more.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE VOICE AND THE PEAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Green-rushing from the rosy thrones of dawn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Mountains


THE VOLCANO HOUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Near mauna loa's mountain top
Last Line: That wonder land doth seem.
Subject(s): Hawaii; Mountains; Volcanoes; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE WEIRD OF MICHAEL SCOTT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild wind moaned: fast waned the light
Last Line: A black corpse tossing on the tide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fire; Mountains; Soul; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE WEST, by PEARL V. DODDRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In space, unlimited and wide
Last Line: The heart with song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hadley, Pearl V.
Subject(s): Mountains; Serenity; West (u.s.); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Southwest; Pacific States


THEODORIC, SELS., by THOMAS CAMPBELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains


THERE IS ROOM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ironwood and whistlewood
Last Line: There is room
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF THE HILLS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That persistent old man of the hills
Subject(s): Mountains; Old Age


THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that
Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere
Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us
Last Line: The berkshires, %have good memories
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory


THINKING OF EAST MOUNTAIN, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's been so long since I headed for east mountain
Last Line: And this bright moon - whose house is it setting on?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Mountains


THIS GAME WE PLAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They shared a house, a table and a bed
Last Line: She wept to hear his faint voice cry, home! Free!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


THIS IS THE DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fiddleheads are crisp and green in the lower
Last Line: Splashes white!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


THREE HILLS, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a hill in england
Last Line: To souls in jeopardy.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Mountains; Soldiers; War; World War I; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


THREE HILLS, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were three hills that stood alone
Last Line: And earth shall eat the stones, and we %shall be alone again
Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C.
Subject(s): Mountains


THREE-YEAR-OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A three - year - old walks
Last Line: Let me see, too!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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


THROUGH KITCHEN WINDOWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through kitchen windows we can see
Last Line: At fruitful earth, and earth laid bare
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time has us all in his pocket
Last Line: We measured out
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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 A MOUNTAIN, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee, o father of the stately peaks
Last Line: There rolls the grand hymn of the deathless wave.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty and health do companion thee, friend
Last Line: Born of an impulse divine.
Subject(s): Beauty; Brooks; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO A SPRING IN THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gurgling spring in sylvan beauty
Last Line: You will ever here abide.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cumberland Mountains; Springs (water)


TO GRANDFATHER, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


TO GUIDE YOU, HE IS, by DAVID KUEHNERT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


TO LORD VISCOUNT STRANGFORD, ABOARD THE PHAETON FRIGATE, OFF AZORES, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet moon! If like crotona's sage
Last Line: Is one, whose heart remembers thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): The Moon, A Tablet
Subject(s): Azores; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO MERAN'S NORTHERN MOUNTAINS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathe on my soul your everlasting calm
Last Line: Retain, as well, the sweetness of the rose.
Subject(s): Fate; Life; Mountains; Soul; Destiny; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO MONTEAGLE, by HARRY HARRISON KROLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A nearly empty highway
Last Line: And I am again come to monteagle.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Monteagle, Tennessee


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 MY MOTHER FROM THE APENNINES, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight the lone mountains on
Last Line: I'm dark without thy constant love.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mothers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO MY MOUNTAIN, by MAHDAH PAYSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O my mountain, my mountain
Last Line: Can you hear?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your peaks are beautiful, ye apennines!
Last Line: Pine silently for the redeeming hour.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Italy; Mountains; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO THE BLUE, HIGH MOUNTAIN, by REBECCA EMERY MORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The japanese have fujiyama, we
Last Line: White-capped above a sea of amethyst!
Subject(s): Mountains; Pikes Peak, Colorado; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O cumberland! O cumberland!
Last Line: Of my childhood's happy hours.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Love


TO THE MOUNTAINS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And when the sun puts out his lamp
Last Line: With unexplored grace and savage frowns.
Subject(s): 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)


TO WALK ON HILLS IS TO EMPLOY LEGS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mountains


TOAST TO A FUTURE DAY, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have climbed to the highest point of the mountain
Last Line: Ringed with the seven-colored rainbow
Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Toasts; Water


TOO OLD TO TRANSPLANT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mark left the hills for unaccustomed streets
Last Line: Whose tap root withers, and green branches die
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring; Fall


TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless
Last Line: And links the roll of a planet alike with the interests %of marmots and men'
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. FORMS ETERNAL AS THE MOUNTAINS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, when for an instant my friends (and I myself)
Last Line: Those other forms that move not from their place.
Subject(s): Friendship; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. INDIA, THE WISDOM-LAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here also in india - wonderful, hidden - over thousands of miles
Last Line: The precious semen of democracy.
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); India; Jungles; Nations; Nature


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)


TOWER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I have come again
Last Line: O king live forever.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Mountains; Stones


TRACES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What trace of me marks hills
Last Line: As the trackless wind
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TRANSPLANTED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Katrina thought she could forget
Last Line: And branch of her adopted land
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TRAPPING SEASON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's open season and I kneel before the yawning hole
Last Line: So gather around! As usual, the treat is on the house
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TRAVELING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wrap myself in morning mist
Last Line: With no two days the same
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TROUT POOL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Feathers and ferns of light
Last Line: Swim in dark water
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TRUST ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lies are mean and sharp
Last Line: You can trust me
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TURN TO GO, by WILLIAM HOWARTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A million summers before los angeles came
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


TURTLE CROSSING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is no hurry in his legs
Last Line: And draws back in his sculptured shell
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


TWO AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, by JAMES RORTY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should hasten or cry out
Last Line: See, I bring you gifts of silence, and cool snows.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Landscape; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome
Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind.
Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UNDER RONDOUT RESERVOIR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water holds no tracks
Last Line: They travel now
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell
Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught!
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


UNINVITED GUEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clothed in his full dress suit of black and white
Last Line: So hold your nose! We came out second best
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


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)


UNTILLABLE HILLS, by W. W. CHRISTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small, silent, bearded man
Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains


UNTO THE HILLS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lift my eyes unto the friendly hills
Last Line: My eyes, my voice, to thank him for this gift.
Subject(s): Holidays; Mountains; Thanksgiving; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UP MOONHAW ROAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up moonhaw road the maples burn
Last Line: The unbelievable was there
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


UP ON THE MOUNTAIN, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up on the mountain, where nobody comes
Last Line: "and the wild bee hums --"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


UPLANDS, by GLORY E. SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The memory of the hills / is in my eyes
Last Line: To seek their loved immensity.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPLANDS IN MAY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder as of old things
Last Line: The great strong hills are humble.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPON LEAVING THE BLACK HILLS, by A. JEAN HOLMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beautiful hills, beneath whose shadows
Last Line: God, greater far, we trembling strive to feel.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPON THE HILL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan
Last Line: How many thousand times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is dead?
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPON THE MOUNTAIN'S DISTANT HEAD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UTE MOUNTAIN, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am gone'
Last Line: Thus men make a mountain
Subject(s): Mountains


VALENTINE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carved with a pen knife on a gray beech bole
Last Line: Inconstant love upon the constant tree
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


VALUE IN MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are those to whom value is a weapon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VALUE IN MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are those to whom value is a weapon
Last Line: And the unique %note %of the stricken
Subject(s): Mountains


VALUE IN MOUNTAINS: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now surprised by lunar mountain avatars
Last Line: And green over them the nova grows above the grass
Subject(s): Mountains; Woods


VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a green isle needs must be
Last Line: And the earth grow young again.
Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VILLAGE LIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the valley strange with dusk
Last Line: And far and bleak the moon and mars!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


VIRGINIA, by VIRGINIA STAIT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know not how her trees compare
Last Line: Me, resurrection's spring!
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Trees; Water; 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


VISIT TO THE SOUTH MOUNTAINS, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The south mountains block up earth and sky
Last Line: Reaching this place I repent my learning, %each dawn drawn nearer to groundless renown
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains


VISITING DAMARIS AT THE INFIRMARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After a lifetime filled with books
Last Line: For me to kiss when it is time for me to go
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


VISITING THE TEMPLE OF MOUNT HENG, THEN SPENDING THE NIGHT, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ritual ranks of the five great peaks
Last Line: Till, gradually growing, the wintry sun %appeared off in the east
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): Buddhism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Temples


VISITORS TO THE WATERFALL, by JAMES REEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: They see the rowan-trees above the fall
Subject(s): Mountains


WALK IN THE FOG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Familiar woods are strange with fog
Last Line: And woods are sensible with light
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WALK IN THE FOG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to walk with
Last Line: Bluejay and crow
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WALKER ON THE BEACH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out on the beach the lonely figure walks
Last Line: And has the secret knowledge none may share
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WANDERING TO THE TIAN-TAI MOUNTAINS, by SUN CHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Utter void, hollow magnitudes, lacking all limit
Last Line: I blur the thousands of images by dark observation, %my body, insensate, identical with what is natu
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Mountains


WAR IS KIND: 18, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: In the night / grey heavy clouds muffled the valleys
Last Line: And the peaks looked toward god alone.
Variant Title(s): The Peaks
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago
Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet.
Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


WARNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep away from mirrors
Last Line: Is an old woman's face
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WARNING 1957, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unleash the fires within the earth
Last Line: Breathe life back into lifeless clay
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WARNING TO WHODUNIT FANS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You like your murders gory when they're safely in a story
Last Line: When you awake and find yourself with a murder on your hand!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


WASHINGTON, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think if I should die
Last Line: Once more to washington.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Washington (state); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


WATCHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I live alone above the lake
Last Line: Watching %watching?
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind
Last Line: To write his name
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WATERSHED, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the land is tilted / like a gambrel roof. The world
Last Line: The knife that cuts the rain in two, the lie
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WE BOUGHT A FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We bought a farm - but we bought more than land
Last Line: Lives on forever with the living earth
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WE SHOULD HAVE WALKED TOWARD THE FARTHEST STAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Improper fractions; what is three times three?
Last Line: But I was busy, so I could not teach!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WEB OF WONDERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have assumed the world was made for me
Last Line: I should give thanks that room was left for me
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WEDDING DRESS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lize kept the dress for over fifty years
Last Line: The wedding dress would fit her when she died
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WESSEX HEIGHTS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some heights in wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand
Last Line: And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wessex, England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WHAT MYTHS AND DREAMS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This earth's a giant pudding stone
Last Line: And makes new myths to light the dream
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WHAT NOW SEEMS SILENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What music does the spinning spider hear
Last Line: The swishing spider web as death appears -
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WHAT TO DO WITH A MOUNTAIN LAKE, by DAVID YEZZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: We pushed off from the crumbled dam
Last Line: Reflected in that seamless span %supporting you and mean
Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains


WHAT'S THE MATTER,' HE SAYS, TYING ON THE, by JON OLANDER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


WHEN IT'S TIME TO TAP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's what you need when it's time to tap
Last Line: A small boy hustling to hang the buckets up
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WHEN LINDA BAKES A CAKE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When linda bakes, the very kitchen changes
Last Line: Wearing her mother's apron, playing house
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WHEN PEOPLE SEE THE MAN OF COLD MOUNTAIN, by HAN-SHAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A word to those of you passing by - %try coming to cold mountain sometime!
Subject(s): Mountains


WHERE THE MOUNTAIN SIPS THE SEA, by CHARLES JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the mountain sips the sea
Last Line: Heed it, and you will rejoice.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


WHITESIDE MOUNTAIN, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you calling me, my mountain
Last Line: Calling coaxingly to me.
Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Mountains; Valleys; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WHITETAIL, 2:30 A.M., by DIANE P. LANDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black doe hides
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


WHO IS WHO, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tomaz salamun you are a genius
Last Line: Every tree every life every valley every chasm %every enmity every lamb every glow every rainbow
Subject(s): Ararat (mountain); Mountains


WILD CAT MOUNTAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild cat mountain crouches in the catskills
Last Line: If I could find the magic that would set him free %to prowl!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WILD GEESE FLYING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pulled by some vast immeasurable tide
Last Line: Shut out the hoarse, deep calls... The air is chill
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WILD STRAWBERRIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strawberries should be eaten from a little tin bucket
Last Line: I think I've always known that I couldn't go back -
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WILD STRAWBERRY DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: No house can hold me when wild strawberries
Last Line: I cannot keep this wild strawberry day
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WILD STRAWBERRY DAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember wild strawberry days
Last Line: And sharp and sweet as remembering
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WILD STRAWBERRY JAM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this gleaming jar of wild strawberry jam
Last Line: That nobody owns!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WILD THYME IN HILLSIDE PASTURES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say this same sweet wild thyme blooms
Last Line: The days come back on wild bees' wings
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WILDCAT LEDGE (COLORADO), by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The platte, long wandering but caught at last
Last Line: "with their exultant cry: ""the hills! The hills!"
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Platte River; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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


WILLIAM TELL, SELS., by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mountains


WINTER GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Filigree of junco tracks
Last Line: These tiny gleaners seek!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WINTER MOUNTAIN, by MARIANA BACHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mount taylor is a grandma in her cap
Last Line: Her cup held pure; while we mix gold with dross.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WISH AT SPRING PLOWING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring plowing here has always turned up stones
Last Line: And never know the dragon's teeth again!
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WITCH HAZEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From mustard gold to golden rod
Last Line: Witch hazel's unexpected gold
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WITH THE CATTLE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The drought is down on field and flock
Last Line: Their heroes from the overland who brought the cattle home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cattle; God; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WITH THE MAJESTY OF MOUNTAINS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winds cry to the peaks; trees hush, elate
Last Line: My stript soul is lifted ... A new tongue I speak.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WITHOUT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never knew I was without
Last Line: My father's arms, my father's voice
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hills and waters fostered you
Last Line: Its kingdom in the thought of man.
Subject(s): Eyes; Mountains; Time; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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)


WRITTEN IN THE MOUNTAINS, by KUAN HSIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mountain's a palace
Last Line: And just dropping in for a listen
Subject(s): Mountains


WU MOUNTAIN, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the ju-tang's winding course is done
Last Line: Too bad - for had you never returned, %forgoing food, you would surely never have died
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mountains; Mythology


YOSEMITE, by DICK HASTINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunlight %played capriciously
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains; Yosemite Valley And National Park


YOU TRIED TO TELL US, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trail of tears almost forgotten
Last Line: We would not listen
Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life


YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A broken moon on the cold water
Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A broken moon on the cold water
Last Line: But you have been dead for thirty years
Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past


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


ZERMATT: TO THE MATTERHORN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty-two years since, up against the sun
Last Line: When darkness filled the earth till the ninth hour.
Subject(s): Matterhorn; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)