Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON A FIRST VIEW OF THE GROUP CALLED THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE


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First Line: When first I saw ye, mountains, the broad sun
Last Line: While peals resistless shook the trembling world!—
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Mountains; Seven Mountains (siebengebirge), Germany; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


When first I saw ye, Mountains, the broad sun
In cloudy grandeur sunk, and showed, far off,
A solemn vision of imperfect shapes
Crowding the southward sky and stalking on
And pointing us "the way that we should go."
Dark thunder-mists dwelt on ye; and your forms,
Obscurely towering, stood before the eye,
Like some strange thing portentous and unknown.
I watched the coming storm. The sulphurous gloom
Clung sullenly round me, and a dull tinge
Began to redden through these mournful shades.
A low imperfect murmur o'er ye rolled.
Doubtful, I listened. On the breathless calm
Again I heard it—then, ye Mountains vast,
Amid the tenfold darkness ye withdrew,
And vanished quite, save that your high tops smoked,
And from your clouds the arrowy lightnings burst,
While peals resistless shook the trembling world!—





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