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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOUNTAIN VALLEY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in this mountain valley, we have struggled Last Line: Staring down at our cornfields covetously. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The | |||
LOST in this mountain valley, we have struggled too long for bread. Here corn grows sparse and yellow the valley is too narrow and we have driven Our plows vainly against the flanks of the hill. No use to struggle further, O my brothers: instead lie down together here and rest, and some day when the earth has grown as cold as the dead craters of the moon, these hills will wrinkle like the wrinkles on a forehead. Drawing together somewhat like a finger against a wrinkled thumb, these hills will squeeze the valley out between them. There will be for us magnificent sepulture, O my kin. Cold hills already lie staring down at our cornfields covetously. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
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