Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OVER THE HILLSIDE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell. In dimmer distance Last Line: The appointed way. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria | ||||||||
FAREWELL. In dimmer distance I watch your figures glide, Across the sunny moorland, The brown hillside; Each momently up rising Large, dark against the sky, Then -- in the vacant moorland, Alone sit I. Within the unknown country Where your lost footsteps pass, What beauty decks the heavens And clothes the grass! Over the mountains shoulder What glories may unfold! Though I see but the mountain Bleak, bare and cold, -- And the white road, slow winding To where, each after each, You slipped away -- ah, wither? I cannot reach. And if I call, what answers? Only 'twixt earth and sky, Like wail of parting spirit, The curlew's cry. Yet, sunny is the moorland, And soft the pleasant air, And little flowers like blessings, Grow everywhere. While, over all, the mountain Stands sombre, calm, and still, Immutable and steadfast, As the One Will. Which, done on earth, in heaven Eternally confessed By men and saints and angels, Be ever blest! Under its infinite shadow (Safer than light of ours!) I'll sit me down a little, And gather flowers. Then I will rise and follow After the setting day, Without one wish to linger, -- The appointed way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK HER LIKENESS by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK NOW AND AFTERWARDS by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK ONLY A WOMAN by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK PHILIP, MY KING by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A 'MERCENARY' MARRIAGE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A CHILD'S SMILE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A CHRISTMAS CAROL by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A DEAD BABY by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A DEAD SEA-GULL; NEAR LIVERPOOL by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK |
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