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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNSET ON THE TENNESSEE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poet's Biography
First Line: The valley rolls to the river
Last Line: They guard the valley below.
Subject(s): Nature; Tennessee; Valleys
First Line: The valley rolls to the river
Last Line: They guard the valley below.
Subject(s): Nature; Tennessee; Valleys
THE valley rolls to the river
And the river is tinged with fire,
As the beams of the sunset quiver
Like the strings of a golden lyre.
And the hills, like sentinels olden,
In burnished steel they glow,
While a kiss of the sunset, golden,
They toss to the valley below.
The valley rolls to the river,
But the cheek of the river is wan,
Like the lips of a maid, when the giver
Of the kiss in the twilight is gone.
But the sentinel hills are bolder;
Like giants in gloom they grow,
And with forest of guns at the shoulder,
They guard the valley below.
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