Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MOUNTAIN, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV


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First Line: A golden cloud slept for her pleasure
Last Line: Down to the desert still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A GOLDEN cloud slept for her pleasure
All night on the gaunt hill's breast;
Light-heart to her play-ground of azure,
How early she sped from the nest.

But the soft moist trace of her sleeping
Lay in the folds of the hill.
He pondered; his tears are creeping
Down to the desert still.





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