Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PIKE'S PEAK, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER



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PIKE'S PEAK, by                    
First Line: Throned on the west this naked patriarch
Last Line: With longing for his errant bride, the sea.
Subject(s): Mountains; Pikes Peak, Colorado; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


Throned on the west this naked patriarch;
His snowy locks down streaming; meditates
Among the windy stars as lesser pates
Of brother summits bow to him. The stark
Far crawling plains lie at his feet and mark
Their homage with red shrines; by men named "Gates
To gardens of the gods." In cloud he waits
Jehovah-like, above the ruddy park.

That old blanched head remembers when the young
Earth mother lifted him from chaos. He
Recalls how waters once around him flung
Proud scintillating arms triumphantly
And scorns these suppliant lands: whose age is wrung
With longing for his errant bride, the sea.





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