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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SWITZERLAND Matches Found: 140 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "RANZ DES VACHES OF THE GRUYERE ALPS, CANTON OF FREIBOURG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The herdsmen of the colombettes Last Line: "where will I drain you! / cows, cows! To the milking come!" Subject(s): "gruyere, Switzerland; A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: SWISS AIR, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But wake the trumpet's blast again Last Line: From slavery's slumber, breathes to liberty! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Music & Musicians; National Song - Switzerland; Swiss National Anthem 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) 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 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 EPISTLE TO DR. MOORE, SELECTION, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, dress'd in each sublimer grace Last Line: Where freedom rears her humble home. Subject(s): Moore, Dr. John (1729-1802); Switzerland; Swiss AND I DID, by ERIKA MUELLER Poem Source First Line: I collected them, as in a basket Last Line: Battered lips flap there, they need not say one thing Subject(s): Switzerland ARNOLD [VON] WINKELRIED, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make way for liberty!' - he cried Last Line: Thus death made way for liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Variant Title(s): The Patriot's Password Subject(s): Freedom; Sempach, Battle Of (1386); Switzerland - Wars; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Liberty; Sempach, Switzerland AT HOCHFINSTERMUNZ, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more between its walls of pines Last Line: And, dying, trust thee for the rest. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Soul; Switzerland; Swiss AT THE CONVENT NEAR SAINT GALL, by JAMES COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: How sweet that valley, clothed in freshest green Last Line: Lamenting over creatures so forlorn. Variant Title(s): Written At The Convent Near Saint Gall Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gall, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BATTLE OF UNTERWALDEN, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the valley we descried Last Line: Underwalden's glory burned. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Switzerland - Wars; Unterwalden, Switzerland 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 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) COUNTRY OF A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they all come to die Last Line: Without a death, its finish and sharp weight %flashing in his own hand Subject(s): Lodeizen, Hans (1924-1950); Switzerland ECHO, UPON THE GEMMI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What beast of chase hath broken from the cover? Last Line: A thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed! Subject(s): Gemmi (mountain), Switzerland EFFUSION IN PRESENCE OF THE PAINTED TOWER OF TELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though the italian pencil wrought not here Last Line: And to his father give its own unerring aim. Subject(s): Altorf, Switzerland 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) ELEGIAC STANZAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells Last Line: The rising pang to smother. Subject(s): Drowning; Goddard, Frederick William (d. 1820); Zurich (lake), Switzerland ENGELBERG, THE HILL OF ANGELS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For gentlest uses, oftimes nature takes Last Line: Whose skirts the glowing mountain thirsted to detain! Subject(s): Engelberg, Switzerland EXCELSIOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shades of night were falling fast Last Line: Excelsior! Subject(s): Life; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland 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) FRANCE: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye clouds! That far above me float and pause Last Line: O liberty! My spirit felt thee there. Subject(s): France - Invasion Of Switzerland (1798); Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Liberty FREEDOM, by CHARLES L. REASON Poem Text First Line: O freedom! Freedom! O! How oft Last Line: Of britain, blew thy trumpet blast. Subject(s): Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846); Freedom; Switzerland - Wars; Tell, William; Liberty GENEVA, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: City of burghers and freedom fighters Last Line: Of the city of burghers and freedom fighters - %gin-clear geneva Subject(s): Geneva, Switzerland GENEVA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Banished from one writer's colony Last Line: Dumbest dreams can astound us Subject(s): Geneva, Switzerland; Love GENEVA, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: In this town, in the blurred and snowy dawn Last Line: In the continuum, %time falls, snow falls, words fall Subject(s): Geneva, Switzerland GENEVA, by CLIFTON SNIDER Poem Source First Line: Only in geneva did the subject appear Subject(s): Geneva, Switzerland GENEVA, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: She was famous for kindness, geneva Last Line: And her dress all feathers and blood Subject(s): Geneva, Switzerland; Kindness; Teaching And Teachers; Women GIBBON, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou too, whilst pondering history's vast plan Last Line: Than those of hapless, injured switzerland! Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians GIBBON AND VOLTAIRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lausanne! And ferney! Ye have been the abodes Last Line: T will be forgiven, or suffer what is just. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Historians GLION - EVENING, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From glion when the sun declines Last Line: Graved by the poet gautier Subject(s): Evening; Glion, Switzerland; Sunset; Twilight GLION - NOON, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From glion on an august noon Last Line: Standing immutably alone. Subject(s): Glion, Switzerland; Noon 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) HOSPENTHAL, by NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full dawn upon the heights of st. Gothard! Last Line: His matin-prayer aloud. Subject(s): Hospenthal, Switzerland IN FRIBOURG CATHEDRAL, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light is dim in the dusky aisle Subject(s): Fribourg Cathedral, Switzerland 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) JULIA ALPINULA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a lone wall a lonelier column rears Last Line: And held within their urn one mind, one heart, one dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Avenches, Switzerland 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) KNIGHT TOGGENBURG, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir knight! True sister-love Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Toggenburg, Switzerland LAKE LEMAN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And all is over; and again I stand Last Line: Dimly the hope we twain were called unto. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Leman, Lake 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) LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit seems to pass Last Line: "never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth""?'" Subject(s): Consolation; Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians 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) 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 SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este LOST FREEDOM OF SWITZERLAND, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! With what pride I used / to walk these hill Last Line: Blow on! This is the land of liberty! Variant Title(s): Tell On His Native Hills Subject(s): Freedom; Switzerland; Liberty; Swiss 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) MEMORIAL. NEAR THE OUTLET OF THE LAKE OF THUN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around a wild and woody hill Last Line: Touched by his golden finger. Subject(s): Thun (lake), Switzerland MIDNIGHT AT GENEVA, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The azure lake is argent now Last Line: To the long-sighed-for smile. Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MONCH AND JUNGFRAU, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG Poem Text First Line: From a lofty alpine summit look down Last Line: And they who join in the chorus are surely of heavenly birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius Variant Title(s): Switzerland Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss MONT BLANC 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) MONUMENT AT LUCERNE, by JOHN KENYON Poem Text First Line: When maddened france shook her king's palace floor Last Line: Of courage, faith, and honorable death. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Lucerne, Switzerland 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 IN MARTIGNY, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sunrise on saint bernard's snow Last Line: Eternally to coil and sting. Variant Title(s): Martigny Subject(s): Martigny, Switzerland MOUNT PILATE, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He riseth alone - alone and proud Last Line: A record too sad for the poet's shell. Subject(s): Pilatus (mountain), Switzerland 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 NAENIAE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft, soft be thy sleep in the land of the west Last Line: But more loved, ...O, how few, love! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips NEAR ZERMATT: THE DRAHTSEILBAHN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High over the deep Last Line: And will always be %there far above me Subject(s): Switzerland OBERMANN ONCE MORE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glion? - ah, twenty years, it cuts Last Line: I saw the morning break. Subject(s): Glion, Switzerland ON A DESECRATED CHAPEL NEAR LAUSANNE, NOW USED AS A STABLE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by a brook, whose stream lake leman feeds Last Line: Of saints, that floor hoof-trampled and uptorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Churches; Lausanne, Switzerland; Stables; Cathedrals 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 GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here let us leave him; for his shroud the Last Line: Translated unaware. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grindelwald, Switzerland; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON APPROACHING THE STAUB-BACH, LAUTERBRUNNEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uttered by whom, or how inspired - designed Last Line: This bold, this bright, this sky-born waterfall! Subject(s): Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland; Waterfalls ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the bleak pass huge alps their shadows throw Last Line: Pure as yon snow that cleaves the vault of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON HEARING THE RANZ DES VACHES ON THE TOP OF THE PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listen - but no faculty of mine Last Line: And joys of distant home my heart enchain. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON THE LAKE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My blood flows fresh, my soul finds food Last Line: Fruits half hid in the grove. Subject(s): Zurich (lake), Switzerland ON THE LAKE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Free is my heart from every weight Last Line: Are dancing alway. Subject(s): Zurich (lake), Switzerland 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 VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH OF GRUYERE IN SWITZERLAND, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where gruyere's castle, rearing still on high Last Line: Alone uncared for, crumbling to decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Castles; Churches; Poverty; Switzerland; Wealth; Cathedrals; Swiss; Riches; Fortunes QUEEN BERTHA, by PHILIPPE-SIRICE BRIDEL Poem Text First Line: Thy name is ever blest Last Line: As in our hearts, -- for thou art there! Subject(s): Payerne, Switzerland QUEEN BERTHA'S ALMS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glad as that thrill some princely birth Last Line: "a kiss is all I have for thee." Subject(s): Payerne, Switzerland 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) SCENE ON THE LAKE OF BRIENTZ, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What know we of the blest above ...' Last Line: The melodies of peace in love! Subject(s): Brientz (lake), Switzerland 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) SIMPLON PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambition, following down this far-famed slope Last Line: What groans! What shrieks! What quietness in death! Subject(s): Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Soldiers SOLOTHURN, by HEINRICH VON LAUFENBERG Poem Text First Line: Where, below the steep of jura Last Line: Print of satan's fingers ten. Variant Title(s): Saint Verena Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Soleure, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Solothurn, Switzerland SONG OF AN ALPINE GUIDE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On zurich's spires, with rosy light Last Line: Around me their great requiem. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONG ON SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, it is a pleasure rare Last Line: Floats in triumph o'er the crag! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rousseau, voltaire, our gibbon, and de stael Last Line: Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): "lake Leman;""rousseau-voltaire-our Gibbon-and De Stael""; Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Stael, Anna (necker) De (1766-1817); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Leman, Lake 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) STONE MILK, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A backward may, with all the local finches of the fex tal piping in dialect Subject(s): Graubunder, Switzerland; Resorts; Landscape; Aging 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) SWISS HOME-SICKNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "wherefore so sad and faint, my heart!" Last Line: As in my own bright land Subject(s): Homesickness;switzerland; Swiss SWISS SONG; ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF AN ANCIENT BATTLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on the white alps round! Last Line: That chainless hearts might worship god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Switzerland - Wars SWITZERLAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the steamy, stuffy midlands, 'neath an english summer sky Last Line: And the true delight of living, as you taste it only there! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips SWITZERLAND, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once switzerland was free! With what a pride Last Line: And think -- I had no master save his own! Variant Title(s): Tell On Switzerland;william Tell On Switzerland Subject(s): Freedom; Switzerland; Liberty; Swiss SWITZERLAND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With memory's eye Last Line: And paris quake before us? Subject(s): Switzerland; Swiss SWITZERLAND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orderly hand of man, hollowing Last Line: When the deck clerk forgets what language he's speaking Subject(s): Switzerland SWITZERLAND AND ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the switzer's varied land Last Line: Unscathed, for art is not of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss TELL'S BIRTHPLACE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark this holy chapel well Last Line: Of slavery, -- the which he broke! Subject(s): Burglen, Switzerland; Tell, William THAT DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across a lake in switzerland, fifty years ago Subject(s): Memory; Switzerland; Swiss THAT DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across a lake in switzerland, fifty years ago Last Line: And we laughed for joy astonished Subject(s): Memory; Switzerland THE BATTLE OF MORGARTEN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wine-month shone in its golden prime Last Line: From the wild morgarten fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): Song Of The Battle Of Morgarten Subject(s): Morgarten, Switzerland; Switzerland - Wars THE BATTLE OF MURTEN, by VEIT WEBER Poem Text First Line: The tidings flew from land to land Last Line: Dancer and prelate too. Subject(s): Murten, Switzerland; Switzerland - Wars; Morat, Switzerland THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH, by HALB SUTER Poem Text First Line: Twas when among our linden-trees Last Line: Where god had judged the day. Subject(s): Sempach, Battle Of (1386); Switzerland - Wars; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Sempach, Switzerland 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 BROOK RHINE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small current of the wilds afar from men Last Line: On to the distant toil, the distant rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe; Switzerland; Swiss THE BROTHERS, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the same hour the breath of life receiving Last Line: Though, such the grasp, not even in death relinquished. Subject(s): Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland THE CASTLE OF CHILLON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lake, thy lovely and thy haunted shore Last Line: The heart thy fuel, and the grave thy shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CAVERN OF THE THREE TELLS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Enter not yon shadowy cave Last Line: The men of grutli sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Grutli, Switzerland THE CHAPEL OF TELL, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this green platform with its chapel small Last Line: On that doth build, and not on god and on the right? Subject(s): Lucerne (lake), Switzerland 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 COUNTRY OF A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they all come to die Subject(s): Lodeizen, Hans (1924-1950); Switzerland; Swiss 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 DEATH OF TELL, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are, with forms celestial Last Line: That closed the life of tell! Subject(s): Schachen (river), Switzerland; Tell, William 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 GREAT SAINT BERNARD, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night was again descending, when my mule Last Line: Bread to the hungry, to the weary rest. Subject(s): Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE JUNGFRAU'S CRY, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, virgin of the snows, have liv'd Last Line: I am weary of it all. Subject(s): Jungfrau (mountain), Switzerland 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 SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day glimmered and I went, a gentle breeze Last Line: Saying it was not! Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Leman, Lake 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 LEAGUE OF THE ALPS; OR THE MEETING ON THE FIELD OF GRUTLI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night upon the alps -- the senn's wild horn Last Line: For now the strife was closed, the glorious alps were free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Switzerland - Wars; Liberty THE LION OF LUCERNE, by A. JUDSON RICH Poem Text First Line: O'er foaming reuss with waters green Last Line: Touching with grief the wide world round. Subject(s): Lucerne, Switzerland 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 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 PRISONER OF CHILLON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hair is gray, but not with years Last Line: Regained my freedom with a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): On Chillon Subject(s): Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Switzerland; Tragedy; Swiss THE PRISONER OF CHILLON: INTRODUCTORY SONNET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Last Line: For they appeal from tyranny to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Freedom's Hero;on The Castle Of Chillon;sonnet On Chillon;on Chillon Subject(s): Chillon Castle, Switzerland 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 SONG OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "just as we spin, of old 'tis said" Last Line: "you for us and we for you. / we spin, my girl and I" Subject(s): "payerne, Switzerland;spinning; THE SWISS DESERTER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In strasbourg's fortress old and strong Last Line: O lord, my god, remember me! Subject(s): Abandonment; Switzerland; Desertion; Swiss THE SWISS EMIGRANT, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, my native land Last Line: In absence near, -- in misery true. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Immigrants; Switzerland; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Swiss THE SWITZER'S WIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the time when children bound to meet Last Line: With a low hymn, amidst the stillness deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Switzerland; Women; Swiss THE TOMBS OF THE REGICIDES: LUDLOW AND BROUGHTON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone on the vine-covered hillside Last Line: Bowed low in the dust of dishonor. Subject(s): Broughton, Andrew (1617-1685); Ludlow, Edmund (1617-1692); Phelps, John (1619-1666); Regicide; St. Martin Church, Vevey, Switzerland THE TOWN OF SCHWYTZ, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By antique fancy trimmed - though lowly, bred Last Line: Thy name, o schwytz! In happy freedom keep! Subject(s): Schwytz, Switzerland THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: A QUIET MOMEMENT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay with me, lady, while you may! Last Line: Before again we meet! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: THE HEART AND NATURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lake is calm; and calm, the skies Last Line: On michael's brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips THEODRIC; A DOMESTIC TALE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas sunset, and the ranz des vaches was sung Last Line: Its flush of love, with consentaneous glow. Variant Title(s): Switzerland Subject(s): Switzerland; Swiss THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two voices are there; one is of the sea Last Line: And neither awful voice be heard by thee! Variant Title(s): Switzerland;on The Subjugation Of Switzerland;england And Switzerland, 1802 Subject(s): England; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Switzerland; English; Liberty; Swiss TO CHARLES ROUX, OF SWITZERLAND, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I would not leave that land, if I were thou Last Line: We welcome freemen - and we welcome thee - %dwell with us, and be free! Subject(s): Freedom; Switzerland TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TANZBODELI, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a rock that juts above the lauterbrunnen valley Last Line: Forming a circle, dance—till the mountains too wheel round us. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tanzbodeli (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UNTERWALDEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now couch thyself where, heard with fear afar Last Line: Shouts from the echoing hills with savage joy. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Unterwalden, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) URSEREN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the green vale of urseren smooth and wide Last Line: Alike in whelming snows and roaring waves. Subject(s): Reuss (river), Switzerland 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 AND THE GENIUS OF SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You have no fears Last Line: Draw the sword, lift the flag, and away! Subject(s): Switzerland; Tell, William; Swiss |
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