Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEYOND, by ROSE TERRY COOKE 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 | ||||||||
THE stranger wandering in the Switzer's land, Before its awful mountain-tops afraid, -- Who yet, with patient toil, hath gained his stand On the bare summit where all life is stayed; Sees far, far down, beneath his blood-dimmed eyes, Another country, golden to the shore, Where a new passion and new hopes arise, Where Southern blooms unfold forevermore. And I, lone sitting by the twilight blaze, Think of another wanderer in the snows, And on more perilous mountain-tops I gaze Than ever frowned above the vine and rose. Yet courage, soul! nor hold thy strength in vain, In hope o'ercome the steeps God set for thee, For past the Alpine summits of great pain Lieth thine Italy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE PRISONER OF CHILLON by GEORGE GORDON BYRON SWITZERLAND by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES THE COUNTRY OF A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL SWITZERLAND AND ITALY by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE SWISS EMIGRANT by LUCY AIKEN MONCH AND JUNGFRAU by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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