Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BURY HILL, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: To this green hill a something dream-like clings Last Line: And feed my wonder, while the sheep graze on! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) | ||||||||
TO this green hill a something dream-like clings, Where day by day the little blunt sheep graze, Threading the tussocks and the toad-stool rings, Nosing the barrows of the olden days. An air drifts here that's sweet of sea and grass, And down the combe-side living colour glows; Spring, Summer, Fall, the chasing seasons pass To Winter, even lovelier than those. The dream is deep today, when all that's far Of wandering water and of darkling wood, Of weald and ghost-like Down combined are In haze below this hill where God has stood. Here I, too, stand until the light is gone, And feed my wonder, while the sheep graze on! | 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 |
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