Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DOWNS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES 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) | ||||||||
O BOLD majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely; O still solitude, only matched in the skies; Perilous in steep places, Soft in the level races, Where sweeping in phantom silence the cloudland flies; With lovely undulation of fall and rise; Entrenched with thickets thorned, By delicate miniature dainty flowers adorned! I climb your crown, and lo! a sight surprising Of sea in front uprising, steep and wide: And scattered ships ascending To heaven, lost in the blending Of distant blues, where water and sky divide, Urging their engines against wind and tide, And all so small and slow They seem to be wearily pointing the way they would go. The accumulated murmur of soft plashing, Of waves on rocks dashing, and searching the sands; Takes my ear, in the veering Baffled wind, as rearing Upright at the cliff, to the gullies and rifts he stands; And his conquering surges scour out over the lands; While again at the foot of the downs He masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS by HAYDEN CARRUTH GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU by HAYDEN CARRUTH A PASSER-BY by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |
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