Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOSEMITE STROPHES, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK


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First Line: Gray and bleakly majestic, the bastioned walls of the valley
Last Line: Beauty undreamed of before, now all a dream or a star.
Subject(s): Nature; Yosemite Valley And National Park


The Valley

GRAY and bleakly majestic, the bastioned walls of the valley,
Springing sheer to the sky, dwarf the great pine trees beneath.

Bridal Veil Falls

White from a notch of the cliffs you slide, oh sylph of the mountains,
Easily, lissomly down, floating on delicate feet.
Bright from your shoulders trail the folds of a robe of jewels,
Softening to film as they fall, looped with a rainbow loop.

Other Waterfalls

Hung on the eaves of the world, the thin ribbon dangles and flutters;
Broadly the Vernal spreads its mantel of feathery spray;
Headlong Yosemite leaps, and pauses, and leaps again forward;
Cliff-overshadowed Nevada gleams from the dark like a wraith.

The Big Trees of Mariposa

Cinnamon-silver they rise,—the trunks of the titan sequoias;
Centuries blossom and fall, fadeless their branches endure.

Conclusion: Yosemite Remembered

Grave and remote and austere, you haunt me with beauty, oh valley,—
Beauty undreamed of before, now all a dream or a star.





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