I hiked yesterday to the summit and peered down a thousand-foot cliff a tree stood at the edge the wind bared its two limbs the rain had stripped it of leaves the sun had dried it like dust alas such a once-verdant bloom is now a pile of ashes | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE ZOO IN SPAIN by CLARENCE MAJOR THE DARKEST HOUR; OXFORD, 1917 by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE ENEMY'S PORTRAIT by THOMAS HARDY ON MUSIC by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR TROAS: ACT II. LATTER END OF THE CHORUS by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA THE WORLD by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE COLLAR-BONE OF A HARE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A CALL TO ARMS by MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS COMPLAINS, BEING HIND'RED THE SIGHT OF HIS NYMPH by PHILIP AYRES |