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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BEAR FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wunzt, 'way west in illinoise
Last Line: Ferever an' ferever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A FOUNTAIN, A BOTTLE, A DONKEY�S EARS, AND SOME BOOKS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old davis owned a solid mica mountain
Last Line: In time she would be rid of all her books
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A HILL SONG, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hills where once my love and I
Last Line: You have lost your oread.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A HOLY HILL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still: be still: nor dare
Last Line: The wrath of stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A LITTLE POCKET, by NINA MANLEY    Poem Text
First Line: I know a little pocket in the hills!
Last Line: I know a little pocket in the hills! --
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MEMORY OF INTERLAKEN, by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS    Poem Text
First Line: There is a light in darkness which the soul
Last Line: Circling in music over you white brows.
Subject(s): Alps; Interlachen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MESSAGE TO MICHAEL, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we had found that there is no way to the white mountain
Last Line: Their distance is the span of what we are.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MOUNTAIN FANCY; INSCRIBED TO MRS. R.S. STORRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close to each mountain's towering peak
Last Line: Dissolves in tender mists of prayer!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MOUNTAIN GATEWAY, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a vale where I would go one day
Last Line: The unworn ritual of eternal things.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MOUNTAIN LODGE, by DOROTHY A. KROGMANN    Poem Text
First Line: Nestling amid the verdant steep
Last Line: You know protection's care.
Subject(s): Houses; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MOUNTAIN PICTURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat within the cabin old
Last Line: By mountain walls surrounded.
Subject(s): Country Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MOUNTAIN ROAD, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text
First Line: Capriciously it wound about
Last Line: In wealth of scents and roses.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

A MOUNTAIN STATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought a run a while ago
Last Line: For sale! A mountain station.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cattle; Mountains; Rivers; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MOUNTAIN VIEW, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No loneliness can come in wood or fell
Last Line: Stilly moves the wilding heart in passion there.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

A MOUNTAIN WIND, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold limbs of the air
Last Line: Brother to grass and stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MOUNTAINGRAVEYARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a sleeping-place is here!
Last Line: This still-shadowed burial ground.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Love; Mountains; Graveyards; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A MYSTERY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river hemmed with leaning trees
Last Line: The hills of heaven arise.
Subject(s): Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 3. THE MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text
First Line: And measure not our mountain peaks
Last Line: And trace his signature in stone!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A RETURN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We turned back mad from the mystic
Last Line: But joy as an arctic sun went down.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A SECOND TIME, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the year I cut logs for the new house and roads, roads like veins
Last Line: When they starved out and moved on, they burned their houses down to get the nails back
Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A SECOND VIEW OF THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains! When next I saw ye it was noon
Last Line: Ye watched the ages of the world below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Climbing; Mountains; Seven Mountains (siebengebirge), Germany; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A SNOW MOUNTAIN, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I make white enough my thought for thee
Last Line: Our only greatness is that we aspire.
Subject(s): Life; Mountains; Snow; White (color); Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A SONG OF THE HILLS AND MY FRIEND, by GEOFFREY DENNIS    Poem Text
First Line: There are two things I long for
Last Line: Perhaps. I pray him so.
Subject(s): Friendship; God; Mountains; Oxford University; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A SONG OF THE MARCHES, by LI TAI PO    Poem Text
First Line: The tien-shan peaks still glisten
Last Line: May seek their homes again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A STRANGER MINSTREL; TO MRS. ROBINSON BEFORE HER DEATH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As late on skiddaw's mount I lay supine
Last Line: I would, I would that she were here!'
Subject(s): Mountains; Robinson, Mary (1758-1800); Skiddaw (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A SUMMER SUNRISE; AFTER LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The master-hand whose pencils trace
Last Line: Go up to bless the new-born day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Mountains; Summer; Sunrise; World; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On stern blencathra's perilous height
Last Line: The things that seek the earth, how full of noise and riot!
Subject(s): Mountains; Saddleback (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

A VISIT TO YUAN-CHIU IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth to sylvan retreats I went, a vagabond
Last Line: It was lucid day-break when I spoke of going.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes

A WALK IN CHAMOUNI, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Together on the valley, white and sweet
Last Line: One neither of supremacy nor rest?
Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ABOVE HALF MOON, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not even a brid can sleep in thin air, a thousand feet higher
Last Line: Shuttered windows, a flower made of timber, whose trail down is a crooked stem
Subject(s): Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ABOVE ST. IRENEE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rested on the breezy height
Last Line: And left the lonely road to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ABOVE THE RIVER, HEAVY ON THE HEART, by SU SHIH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the river, heavy on the heart, thousandfold hills
Last Line: My hill friends will soon be sending poems to call me home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Variant Title(s): Above The River, Heavy On The Heart (1088)
Subject(s): Heaven; Mountains; Paintings And Painters; Yangzi River, China; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AFTERNOON ON A HILL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will be the gladdest thing
Last Line: And then start down!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ALASKAN MOUNTAIN POEM #1, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark branches / dark leaves
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ALDINGTON KNOLL; THE OLD SMUGGLER SPEAKS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Al'ington knoll it stands up high
Last Line: Cater the marsh and crost the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ALPINE HEIGHTS, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On alpine heights the love of god is shed
Last Line: On alpine heights a loving father dwells.
Variant Title(s): Mountain And Valley
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

ALPINE SONNETS 1: THE GLACIER, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dawn in silence moves the mighty stream
Last Line: Of sovereign love, and song began to flow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ALPINE SONNETS 2: THE SNOW-FIELD, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White death had laid his pall upon the plain
Last Line: To cheer my pilgrim-heart no more alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ALPINE SONNETS 3: MOVING BELLS, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair
Last Line: That wander far among the sleeping hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Alps; Bells; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ALPINE SPIRIT'S SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the snow, through the air, to the mountain
Last Line: Earth beneath, and stars above.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

AMONG THE HILLS, by W. B. HAUGHT    Poem Text
First Line: Who would not live among the hills
Last Line: A picture by the master artist -- god?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AMONG THE HILLS, by ETHEL AMBLER HUNTER    Poem Text
First Line: I love the valleys, where the slow, brown brooks
Last Line: The far horison, and the sunset light!
Subject(s): Mountains; Wellesley College; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wander on the barren moors
Last Line: And breathes the humid air of death!
Subject(s): Mountains; Loss; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye trees! Whose slender roots entwine
Last Line: Appear to sight still more forlorn.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Convents; Mountains; Ruins; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AN ALPINE DESCENT, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mule refreshed, his bells
Last Line: "along this path to conquer at marengo."
Subject(s): Alps; Marengo, Battle Of; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AN ALPINE PICTURE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand here and look, and softly hold your breath
Last Line: Or is it but the frost-work on the pane?
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

AN ODE TO A MOUNTAIN, by VIRGINIA LEPORIN LEACH    Poem Text
First Line: O age-old mountain tall and grand
Last Line: As pure and rugged, mount, as thine!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AN ODE WRITTEN IN THE PEAK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This while we are abroad
Last Line: The muse is still in ure.
Subject(s): Derbyshire, England; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ANCAPAGARI, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning of the tribe this name ancapagari was given to these
Last Line: Tongue. It is the name of the god who has come from among us
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING    Poem Text
First Line: Beyond and yet beyond new beauty calls
Last Line: But oh, unsatisfied, there is no sea.
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Mountains; Sea; Seagulls; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years have gone. It is spring
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ANNUNCIATION, by GEORGES DUHAMEL    Poem Text
First Line: From the tall mountain's brow
Last Line: And the man that it will crush.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AT THE CONVENT NEAR SAINT GALL, by JAMES COCHRANE    Poem Text
First Line: How sweet that valley, clothed in freshest green
Last Line: Lamenting over creatures so forlorn.
Variant Title(s): Written At The Convent Near Saint Gall
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gall, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The path of most insistence
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AT THIS POINT, THE MOON STARTS TO TAKE ON A LITTLE BROWN AND GRAY..., by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the andes / an old peruvian
Last Line: The old peruvian
Subject(s): Mountains; Peru; South America; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AT THOUGHT OF HILLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At thought of hills where streams begin
Last Line: A little hill. ...To ease my mind.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Thought; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Thinking; Journeys; Trips

AT VALLOMBROSA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vallombrosa - I longed in thy shadiest wood'
Last Line: To the fountain whence time and eternity flow.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Violet-colour'd mountain summits
Last Line: "girofflino, girofflette!"
Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

AUTUMN (DOUBLE OAK MOUNTAIN - ALABAMA), by IDA DREAM SCHWARTZ    Poem Text
First Line: Hushed and old
Last Line: Of stiff white birch stirring like ghost.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Seasons; Fall; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight
Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year.
Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

BELOW FREEZING ON PINELOG MOUNTAIN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crouched in the rusted cab of a junked pulpwood truck
Last Line: Rises like gray smoke through rust holes in the roof.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Appalachia; Guns; Mountains; Rain; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BELOW THE HEIGHTS, by WALTER HERRIES POLLOCK    Poem Text
First Line: I sat at berne, and watched the chain
Last Line: The rose so quickly faded.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BEN LOMOND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hadst thou a genius on thy peak
Last Line: Of perishable man.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BERKSHIRE HILLS, by WILL H. SKALING    Poem Text
First Line: Sunrise o'er berkshire hills, hush
Last Line: Sedge in meadows, river lush.
Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BERKSHIRES IN APRIL, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not spring - not yet
Last Line: And spring is pulsing out of the wakening soil.
Subject(s): April; Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts

BEYOND, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stranger wandering in the switzer's land
Last Line: Lieth thine italy.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

BIG SUR LIGHT: 4, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds slept-in this morning
Last Line: Before breakfast
Subject(s): Birds; Mountains; Hills

BLACK BUTTE, by PAUL SOUTHWORTH BLISS    Poem Text
First Line: Squat on the prairie, scowling, sits black butte, mightiest rock-chief of them
Last Line: And the rock lips break into a long, bitter smile!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BLESSED PERMANENCE OF HILLS, by EDITH OGDEN    Poem Text
First Line: I could not live where there is not a hill
Last Line: A panacea for littleness that kills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BLEST IS THE TARN, by SARA COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade
Last Line: She yields that dream of bliss to ever welcome sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Lakes; Mountains; Tarns; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BOAR'S HILL; OCTOBER, 1919, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall slender beech trees, whispering, touched with fire
Last Line: Ere your steps turned home?
Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Pain; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery

BOILING SAP AT NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our sugarhouse was jest a shack
Last Line: That syrup made at dead of night!
Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating; Mountains; Soup; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me
Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine.
Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife
Last Line: Chorus—
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

BORDER HILLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mosaic of topaz, emerald, and mauve
Last Line: And as old.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BRIDE, by THOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL    Poem Text
First Line: After the turgid incidence and when
Last Line: "the peak seemed highest, whispering, ""take me there."
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BRUNNEN, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the princely towers of berne
Last Line: With their country's rights to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Alps; Brunnen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BUONARROTI, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No longer cold or dolorous, the gleaming mountains loom
Last Line: Mad angelo still proves that marble lived -- and never dies!
Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BURY HILL, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To this green hill a something dream-like clings
Last Line: And feed my wonder, while the sheep graze on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

BY THE ROSANNA, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old grey alp has caught the cloud
Last Line: And tops it in a silver fountain.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CACHE LA POUDRE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole world / (which you said I was
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CALIFORNIA HILLS, by DORIS CALDWELL    Poem Text
First Line: You would not need to flaunt yourself for me
Last Line: Withhold your beauty or my heart will break!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW, by MARY KINZIE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains did look in
Last Line: Like a drone instrument / the highway
Subject(s): Mountains; Man-woman Relationships; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Male-female Relations

CAPRICE, by IDA STERNFELS    Poem Text
First Line: My lady fleecer
Last Line: "and hold high carnival."
Subject(s): Montana; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CATHAIR FHARGUS [FERGUS'S SEAT], by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With face turned upward to the changeful sky
Last Line: And thus I wait till resurrection-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Arran (island), Ireland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CATHEDRAL, by BESSY KERLEE MONROE    Poem Text
First Line: The mountains at morning were like a row
Last Line: "chanting, ""thanks be to god!"
Subject(s): Holidays; Mountains; Thanksgiving; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CHANGE, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mighty mountain pass! From eldest time
Last Line: Pure voice of wind and stream?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CHILTERNS, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember once a glorious thing
Subject(s): Chiltern Hills, England

CITY AND COUNTRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back to your mother, ye children, for shame
Last Line: And the best of old -- water -- at nothing a glass.
Variant Title(s): City Men In The Country;lines Recited At The Berkshire Jubilee, Pittsfield, Mass.
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts

CONNECTICUT HILLS, by MINERVA WRIGHT ROCKWELL    Poem Text
First Line: For countless centuries these hills have stood
Last Line: Will sleep among these hills, to waken at their bidding.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CONTENT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should be content
Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond and farther and yet from every vantage
Last Line: The ever and never known the pivot the horizon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CONTRASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is roaring down the lake
Last Line: Will never bloom again!
Subject(s): Evil; Mountains; Soul; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

COTSWOLD HILLS, by MARY COLBORNE-VEEL    Poem Source
First Line: I shall die on cotswold hills
Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England

COTSWOLD LOVE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue skies are over cotswold
Last Line: With slyly tilted shoe.
Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England

COURTSHIP AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the woodland pasture
Last Line: Beneath the moonlit sky.
Subject(s): Courtship; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

CROCKNAHARNA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the heights of crocknaharna
Last Line: Twenty hundred miles away.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

DAKOTA HILLS, by H. R. MARTINSON    Poem Text
First Line: Hills in the hazy
Last Line: Are leveled in sleep.
Subject(s): Mountains; North Dakota; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

DAVID, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: David and I that summer cut trails on the survey
Last Line: That day, the last of my youth, on the last of our mountains.
Subject(s): Hiking; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

DESERT MONTAINS (MEXICAN COAST), by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Text
First Line: Their loneliness lies brooding like a cloud
Last Line: Mere spindrift flying in a windy place.
Subject(s): Mexico; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

DIVIDENT HILL, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pause here, o muse! That fancy's eye
Last Line: Their heaven-built monument.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs.
Subject(s): Heroism; Mountains; Heroes; Heroines; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

DOLL SHOP ON RODEO DRIVE, by VIRGINIA WEBB JULAVITS    Poem Source
First Line: Dylan thomas, the bulbous
Subject(s): Beverly Hills, California; Dolls; Retail Trade; Toys

DREAM - COTSWOLD, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE    Poem Text
First Line: Thy little dreaming towns life passes by
Last Line: Where the trees have emerald leaves and the streets are gold.
Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Oxford University; Towns

EARLY EVENING IN APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A drift of fragrance down a lane of spring
Last Line: Wistful and delicate and debonair.
Subject(s): April; Evening; Mountains; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ECLOGUE ON NOBLE ASSEMBLIES REVIVED ON COTWSOLD HILLS BY ROBERT DOVER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What clodpates, thenot, are our british swains!
Last Line: To saint him in the shepherd's calendar.
Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Country Life; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements

EDELWEISS, by WARREN PEASE    Poem Text
First Line: Child of the snowdrift and the storm!
Last Line: Is baby madeleine.
Subject(s): Alps; Babies; Children; Edelweiss; Mountains; Infants; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EIGER, MONCH, AND JUNGFRAU, by NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more of cities, with their proud cathedrals
Last Line: Rimmed as with sculptured silver, sweet chartreuse.
Variant Title(s): The Chartreuse On The Lake Of Thun
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Thun (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EINSIEDELN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid savage rocks, and seas of snow that shine
Last Line: In mute devotion on the thankful breast!
Subject(s): Alps; Einsiedeln, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ENGLISH HILLS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O that I were
Last Line: Her cool dark loveliness.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EPIGRAM ON THE TWO MOUNTAINS OF AMOS-CLIFF AND BILBOROUGH, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold how almias-cliff and bilborough's brow
Last Line: Let them, maria, thy parnassus be!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EPISTLE TO ALBERT DEW-SMITH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Figure me to yourself, I pray
Last Line: Smoke with an unperturbed mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EPITHALAMIUM, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bee in the field. The house on the mountain
Last Line: Of light: particle to wave. Do you take? I do
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EVENING - MOUNTAINS, by THEODORE DREISER    Poem Text
First Line: The shadowy hills
Last Line: The poem of a star.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EVENING AMONG THE ALPS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft skies of italy! How richly drest
Last Line: And roves the alpine gale o'er solitudes afar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the sunset tree!
Last Line: And the reaper's work is done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tyrol, Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't such a bad thing
Last Line: Everyone knows whom the saved envy
Subject(s): Angels; Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

EVISA: A SKETCH IN CORSICA, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the rose-red chasms and the gorges
Last Line: Lone upon wide wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Corsica; Drawing; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

EXALTATION, by HILDA WHILT ARCHER    Poem Text
First Line: I climbed the glad hills near our friendly old town
Last Line: That I found 'mongst the silent ones, over the hill.
Subject(s): Montana; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain and the squirrel / had a quarrel
Last Line: Neither can you crack a nut.'
Subject(s): Mountains; Religion; Squirrels; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology

FANCIES IN THE FIRELIGHT, IN THE CONVENT OF SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, it is a joy to gaze
Last Line: Dona eis requiem!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

FAREWELL TO ETNA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great mountain, swathed in blue with foamy crest
Last Line: May counsel with my soul to rival his.
Subject(s): Farewell; Mountains; Soul; Tears; Parting; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

FLINT AND STEEL, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountain / mesquite
Last Line: For the little verb that will kindle the fire!
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Smells; Spring; Trees; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Odors; Aromas; Fragrances

FROM EAGLE ROCK, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who says that eagle rock was not well named
Last Line: Luminous, hushed, a city of the skies!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

FROM MOUNTAIN-SLOPES, by NELLIE I. CRABB    Poem Text
First Line: I climb through terraced gardens, see below
Last Line: Demand that love prepare their day of peace.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Hills; Downs (great Britain)

FROM PENLAN HILL, CARMARTHEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the town the valley lies
Last Line: Limpid stream and laughing water.
Subject(s): Carmarthen, Wales; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen

FROM THE CABRILLO AT SANTA BARBARA, by EMILY WILSON SANDER    Poem Text
First Line: One by one the white cohorts advance
Last Line: In the sun, with garlands in her hair.
Subject(s): Mountains; Seashore; Waves; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Beach; Coast; Shore

GEO-BESTIARY: 14, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a geezer one grows tired of the story
Last Line: And make your own little pyramids.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

GHOSTS OF PAPER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text
First Line: Should you go down ludgate hill
Last Line: As I'm sure you often will!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

GOD MEETS ME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God meets me in the mountains when I climb alone and high
Last Line: God meets me in the canyon when I miss him in the town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): God; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

GOLDAU, by JOHN NEAL    Poem Text
First Line: An everlasting hill was torn
Last Line: His desolation mocks the skies.
Subject(s): Alps; Goldau, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

GOLDEN ROWAN, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She lived where the mountains go down to
Last Line: Is all we know of her.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

GRANITE HANDS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS    Poem Text
First Line: The great granite hands of the mountain
Last Line: Strong hands were built for shelter.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honey I'd split your kindling
Last Line: & my dove
Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains; Agriculture; Farmers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HARD EASTER, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadows from the spruce woods slouch down the hill
Last Line: Open underground.
Subject(s): Death; Montana; Mountains; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HASBEEN HILL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text
First Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill
Last Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill!
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HAWAII AND OAHU, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text
First Line: Hawaii, with thy sea-washed shore
Last Line: Until we meet again.
Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Mountains; Volcanoes; Parting; Oceania; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HEMLOCK MOUNTAIN, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER    Poem Text
First Line: By orange grove and palm-tree, we walked the southern shore
Last Line: For all the summer islands where the gulf tides flow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HIGH TIDE, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE    Poem Text
First Line: Twilight deepened and one by one
Last Line: Till the frightened tide turned to flee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion
Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

HILL AND VALE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not on the river plains
Last Line: Of stars and clouds allied.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILL TIDES, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL    Poem Text
First Line: These rolling billows of the hills
Last Line: And wash it golden clean for me.
Subject(s): Mountains; Summer; Tides; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS, by HILDA CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills are going somewhere;
Last Line: In the time I've watched them . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS, by SCOTTIE MCKENZIE FRASIER    Poem Text
First Line: My earliest memories are of hills
Last Line: Or else let me dream -- then die!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never loved your plains!
Last Line: And strength for climbing!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Text
First Line: You have not lived until you know a hill
Last Line: That strange tree-god that watches over all.
Subject(s): Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a special glory set apart
Last Line: Can turn them to the hills, as friends of old!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS O' MY HEART, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hills o' my heart!
Last Line: Hills o' my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, by CYRUS CASWELL JOHNSON    Poem Text
First Line: I can hear the padres chanting in the early golden air
Last Line: On the hills of california in the morning.
Subject(s): California; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS OF HOME, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Name me no names for my disease
Last Line: "seeking again those hills."
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLS OF HOME, by MALCOLM HEMPHREY    Poem Text
First Line: Oh! Yon hills are filled with sunlight
Last Line: And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War

HILLS OF OHIO, by GRACE K. EWART    Poem Text
First Line: With their heads adorned in splendor
Last Line: Than the hills of old ohio in the fall.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HILLTOP, by LAURA M. GRADICK    Poem Text
First Line: The heights are best for vision
Last Line: We can commune with god.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HIS MIRACLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He read how faith, the merest grain
Last Line: "those mountains may remain,"" said he."
Subject(s): Miracles; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HOME IN THE HILLS, by ALTHEA V. DIEHL    Poem Text
First Line: Home in the hills, - back where my heart is
Last Line: I'd like a heart you reared and loved come out to welcome me.
Subject(s): Hearts; Home; Mountains; Peace; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HUDSON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ma-hican-ittuck! / river to the mountains
Last Line: Beats warm and unafraid.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; New York City - Dutch Period; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HYMN TO ARTEMIS: ALL MOUNTAINS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me all mountains
Last Line: And the towering mountain trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

HYMN TO MONT BLANC [IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
Last Line: Earth with her thousand voices, praises god.
Variant Title(s): Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni;chamouny;mont Blanc Before Sunrise;hymn Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni
Subject(s): Alps; Blanc, Mont; Chamonix, France; God; Mountains; Religion; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology

HYMN WRITTEN AMONG THE ALPS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Creation's god! With thought elate
Last Line: Thee, thee, my god, I trace!
Subject(s): Alps; Hymns (as Literary Form); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Liebe, meine, liebe. I had not hoped
Last Line: How gravely and sweetly the poor touch in the dark
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IN AMPEZZO, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only once more and not again - the larches
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IN THE ALPS, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who first beholds those everlasting clouds
Last Line: At the first glimpses of fair italy.
Variant Title(s): The Alps
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can the village dead remain so / still
Last Line: And dance in triumph on my crumbling shroud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Mountains; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IN THE CHARMED LAND, by FRANCES HATHAWAY    Poem Text
First Line: Great mountain, white mountain
Last Line: And the rose in snow!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IN THE HIGH HILLS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Height overhead to the deeps
Last Line: The everlasting hills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IN THE PASS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across my road a mountain rose of rock
Last Line: Who do not know the secret of the pass.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Variant Title(s): The Pass Of Ampezzo
Subject(s): Alps; Ampezzo, Austria; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IN THE SIMPLON PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood
Last Line: Of love in the heart made more happy by tears?
Variant Title(s): Stanzas Composed In The Simplon Pass
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

IN THE ST. GOTTHARDT PASS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm which shook the silence of the hills
Last Line: They kiss high heaven in all embracing light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON    Poem Text
First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall
Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . .
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues

INTO THE MIDST OF BATTLE, by CARLA LANYON LANYON    Poem Text
First Line: The mountains are at war; flash and flash again
Last Line: That were before and shall endure beyond all wars.
Subject(s): Mountains; War; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

JANUARY IN THE TREMEZZINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day by day / as if in may
Last Line: In a sweet retreat on the larian lake?
Subject(s): Alps; January; Lakes; Mountains; Peace; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

JUNGFRAU, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The virgin-mountain, wearing like a queen
Last Line: Deafening the region in his ireful mood.
Variant Title(s): The Jungfrau And The Fall Of The Rhine Near Schaffhausen
Subject(s): Alps; Jungfrau (mountain), Switzerland; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

KILIMANDJARO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to thee, monarch of african mountains
Last Line: Father of nile and creator of egypt!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Kilimanjaro, Mount (africa); Mountains; Nile (river); Hills; Downs (great Britain)

KINCHINJUNGA, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O white priest of eternity, around
Last Line: On any shrine is left to tell life's sting.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Future Life; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

KING'S MOUNTAIN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all the cities of this year
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

KLICKITAT HILLS, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are no fat
Last Line: With loneliness.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LAKE LEMAN AND CHILLON, by HENRY MORFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the old genevan wharf she lay
Last Line: By a guest with a bad digestion!
Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LAKE URI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From such romantic dreams, my soul, awake!
Last Line: To pilgrims overcome by summer's heat.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Uri (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LANDSCAPE, by CHALLIS SILVAY    Poem Text
First Line: Stalwart old men of earth
Last Line: By some miracle of destiny . . .
Subject(s): Canyons; Landscape; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LAST ECSTASY, by ALETHA CALDWELL CONNER    Poem Text
First Line: I want to go to the hills of oklahoma
Last Line: In the hills of oklahoma!
Subject(s): Mountains; Oklahoma; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hamlet ballytullagh, small and old
Last Line: Loy, a half-spade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Despair; Mountains; Poverty; Solitude; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness; Journeys; Trips

LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away
Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

LAUTERBRUNNEN, by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON    Poem Text
First Line: A lowly hut, stone piled and redly stained
Last Line: Gracing their simple lives with natural piety.
Subject(s): Alps; Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the self of my former shadow
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains

LINES SUGGESTED BY THE STATUE OF ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED STANZ-UNTERWALDEN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inspiring and romantic switzer's land
Last Line: The martyr winkelried's immortal name!
Variant Title(s): Lines Suggested By The Statue Of Arnold Von Winkelried
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Stanz, Switzerland; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LITTLE THINGS, by POLLY CHASE    Poem Text
First Line: There is space in mountains
Last Line: Very brief.
Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

LOUISA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met louisa in the shade
Last Line: To hunt the waterfalls.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LUCERNE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shores of lucerne! Where many a winding bay
Last Line: "a deep, deep sigh, ""avenge, o god, their cause!"
Subject(s): Alps; Lucerne, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LUCERNE, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet there is / within an eagle's flight
Last Line: Why should it ever die?
Subject(s): Alps; Lucerne, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

LUDGATE HILL-DECEMBER NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was the heart
Last Line: Over the craters, a banner from the dome.
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no one among men that has not a special failing
Last Line: I choose a place that is unfrequented by men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

MANFRED, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Projected from the bilious childe
Last Line: An after-dinner's indigest.
Subject(s): Alps; Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MATTERHORN QUESTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As men essay the matterhorn
Last Line: Bids them to climb and do their best.
Subject(s): Alps; Labor & Laborers; Mountains; Pain; Soul; Work; Workers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery

MAY ROAD, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL    Poem Text
First Line: The road we followed led us to a hill
Last Line: Somehow, to keep the love that we exchanged.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MEETING THE MOUNTAINS, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He crawls to the edge of the foaming creek
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MERCURY; ON LOSING MY POCKET MILTON AT LUSS NEAR BEN LOMOND, by ROBERT ANDREWS    Poem Text
First Line: Luss! Be forever sunk beneath / ben's horrors piled around
Last Line: The laurel never sere.'
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

METIGOSHE, by THONETTE TRANE    Poem Text
First Line: Past the garden, cairn and fountains
Last Line: Metigoshe of the mountains!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Down valley a smoke haze
Subject(s): Mountains; Memory; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MIDNIGHT AT GENEVA, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The azure lake is argent now
Last Line: To the long-sighed-for smile.
Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MIRAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ethereal mountain
Subject(s): Mirages; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MISERICORD, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory
Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery

MONCH AND JUNGFRAU, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG    Poem Text
First Line: From a lofty alpine summit look down
Last Line: And they who join in the chorus are surely of heavenly birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius
Variant Title(s): Switzerland
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

MONT BLANC, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rest, my soul, from meteor dreams
Last Line: Rise then, -- to heaven!
Variant Title(s): The Alps
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MONT BLANC AT SUNSET, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas late - the sun had almost shone
Last Line: To walk unstained the elysian shade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Lake Of Geneva
Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The everlasting universe of things
Last Line: Silence and solitude were vacancy?
Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Sleep; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

MONTCLAIR, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN    Poem Text
First Line: Dear lovely mountain town, farewell
Last Line: Proud mountain town, montclair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry
Subject(s): Mountains; Towns; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MONTJUICH, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill of jews, says one,
Subject(s): Mountains; Barcelona, Spain; Cemeteries; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Graveyards

MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument.
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America

MOOSIL'AUK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moosil'auk! Mountain sagamore! Thy brow
Last Line: Lone peak! What realms are thine, above, below!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MORAT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above me are the alps
Last Line: Making kings' rights divine, by some draconic clause.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Murten, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Morat, Switzerland

MORNING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morn on the mountains! Streaks of roseate
Last Line: How good, how wondrous good our god must be.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNT AGASSIZ, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this mountain bore his well-loved name
Last Line: Went prayer in horeb silence unto god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNT KINGSTON, by EDWIN M. CASE    Poem Text
First Line: The veil of night-mist drawn aside
Last Line: And look down on a pigmy world.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNT RIGHI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meek virgin mother, more benign
Last Line: Sufficient for the wise.
Variant Title(s): Our Lady Of The Snow
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNT TABOR, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tabor's height a glory came
Last Line: And nothing left but christ alone.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAIN AIR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me of progress if you will
Last Line: And leave me sun and mountain air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie
Last Line: And prairies too!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains

MOUNTAIN INSOMNIA, by ELSA THUESEN    Poem Text
First Line: All through the black edges of night
Last Line: And I slept again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Night; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime

MOUNTAIN LOVERS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn's pale finger from her eye
Last Line: Their vigils, chant their threnodies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAIN MOMENT, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out across the morning
Last Line: Birches in the dawn!
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Eyes; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAIN SPEECH, by HARRY COWELL    Poem Text
First Line: High over all the loftiest heads of all the valley herds
Last Line: "this morn I do not know!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cowell, Henry
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAIN TOP, by MARY REEDER WINGARD    Poem Text
First Line: The sky that you so loved has changed its gray
Last Line: Oh, can you share the mountain top with me?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAIN WATER, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have taken a drink from a wild fountain
Last Line: In the feathery green of the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAINEER AND POET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The simple goatherd between alp and sky
Last Line: Nor bright because god's glory shines for you.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAINS, by LAURA BULMER    Poem Text
First Line: I would not live where the prairies lie
Last Line: Could not be at home on the plain.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAINS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's fenced all round with mountains where we live
Last Line: Beyond the hollow, where I had a cousin . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAINS, by NORA E. HUFFMAN    Poem Text
First Line: Somber ... Mysterious ... I love them
Last Line: And is heard through the heart alone.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAINS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rifted mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines
Last Line: Sailing up to holy heaven, like the anthems of a saint.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAINS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain seems to guard
Last Line: And take what highways bring.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MOUNTAINS IN THE GRAND CANYON, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each a primeval vastness, shaped by hands
Last Line: Abandoned quarry of the infinite.
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MT. RANIER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow-garmented, immense, / and holding audience
Last Line: Far-flashing monarch of a dead domain.
Subject(s): Mount Rainier; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MT. STUART, by J. A. LAURIE    Poem Text
First Line: Riven, rent, and cragged
Last Line: We mountaineers unfurl old glory.
Subject(s): Beauty; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MUSINGS NEAR AQUAPENDENTE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye apennines! With all your fertile vales
Last Line: Rise, and to-morrow greet magnificent rome.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MUSINGS ON A COOL RETREAT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a little hidden pool
Last Line: The woolworth building, in the basement!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MY ALPENSTOCK, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Best of artists! Mark for me
Last Line: That my legs are no small beer.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER    Poem Text
First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair
Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MY HILLS, by MARY MAPES KEESHAN    Poem Text
First Line: They are but hills that from my window
Last Line: Has reached the skies.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MY MOUNTAIN HOME, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees have grown so stout and tall
Last Line: And watch, and wait, and weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

MY NATIVE MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love my native mountains
Last Line: The fairest types of earth.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

NATIVES OF ROCK, by GLENWAY WESCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire cut away
Last Line: Spikes, and lap the dew.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

NATURE RHYMES: 6. WEATHER RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text
First Line: When juana wears her misty shawl
Last Line: Full well we know that rain will fall
Subject(s): Mountains;weather; Hills;downs (great Britain)

NATURE SAYS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature says, / these craggy hills that front the dawn
Last Line: Charged with my genius forth
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON    Poem Text
First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun
Last Line: By god-like boys.
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America

NAVIGATION, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evergreens have reasons
Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

NEAPOLITAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naples seems mostly mountains and mules
Last Line: But to fancy them flies!
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mountains; Naples, Italy; Mules; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

NEEDLES ROAD, by GERNIE HUNTER    Poem Text
First Line: Lost on a winding roadway
Last Line: And the curve of needles road!
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails

NEVERSINK, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hills, the pride of all the coast
Last Line: Retirement's blest abode!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America

NOCTES AMBROSIANAE, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER    Poem Text
First Line: From hemlock mountain's barren crest
Last Line: To charles and mary lamb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Lamb, Mary (1764-1847); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

NORDIC, by JOEL ELIAS SPINGARN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rainbows and stardust found no room
Last Line: "has cradled you as well as me."
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rainbows; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES R. MURPHY    Poem Text
First Line: Here earth and sky and thudding hoofs of horses
Last Line: Bringing its elder presence -- and closed eyes.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

OF MOUNTAINS, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All through the night I am aware
Last Line: His song!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, by ETTA MERRICK GRAVES    Poem Text
First Line: The grand old man of the mountain
Last Line: Through speeding time will reach!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

OLD VERMONT ROADS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old-time roads, they used to run
Last Line: Them roads the fathers used to travel.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips

ON A FIRST VIEW OF THE GROUP CALLED THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
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)

ON A FLOWER FROM THE FIELD OF GRUTLI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence art thou, flower? From holy ground
Last Line: Which all high thoughts obey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Grutli, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON A HILLSIDE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A friendly mountain I know
Last Line: Than all the world beside.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns
Last Line: His glory fills the air.
Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this, when I was stationed at hsun-yang
Last Line: And am pleased with anyone who is even remotely human!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON BOOT HILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the prairie and through the pines
Last Line: And a star-speckled range to ride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Mountains; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains

ON CHICATAWBUT HILL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text
First Line: On chicatawbut hill I climbed
Last Line: On chicatawbut hill.
Subject(s): Memory; Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the bleak pass huge alps their shadows throw
Last Line: Pure as yon snow that cleaves the vault of heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON DUTY'S KNOB, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flush of a beautiful sunrise
Last Line: As I looked at it that day.
Subject(s): Dawn; Mountains; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON FLINT ROCK HILLS, by FRANCIS GALATIA YEOMAN    Poem Text
First Line: On flint rock hills the twilight lies
Last Line: On flint rock hills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON HEARING THE RANZ DES VACHES ON THE TOP OF THE PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I listen - but no faculty of mine
Last Line: And joys of distant home my heart enchain.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON HELTON'S HILL (THE BERKSHIRES), by SARA TEASDALE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no other hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts

ON HELTON'S HILL (THE BERKSHIRES), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no other hill
Last Line: I am glad to live
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts

ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh far away ye are, ye lovely hills
Last Line: Let its dark portals open -- let me die!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON TAKING FROM THE TOP TO BROADEN THE BASE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roll stones down on our head!
Last Line: To broaden its base
Subject(s): Mountains; Avalanches; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON THE DOWNS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A faint sea without wind or sun
Last Line: Time's deep dawn rise.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

ON THE HILLS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep your brooding sorrows for dewy-misty hollows
Last Line: In the brooding hollows where no breezes are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON THE MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis
First Line: When from this mighty mountain's top
Last Line: Its sudden fall or rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The top of the world and an empty
Last Line: We are so little and oh, so wise!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

ON THE MOUNTAINS, by ALCMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, on the mountain peaks high up
Last Line: A round of silver-bright cheese-cake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES    Poem Text
First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills
Last Line: But when will the earth respond?
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains

ON THE RIGHI, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the righi kulm we stood
Last Line: Till we climb to heaven again!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Righi, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ON THE SIERRA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the glorious mountains, proud and bleak
Last Line: So far from heaven, that sight of god is lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ONCE MORE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more by the brook the alder leaves
Last Line: Snorting and bounding heavily before me
Subject(s): Deer; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

OUR HILL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Teddy and jock and I play on a hill all day
Last Line: But it wouldn't be safe for you!
Subject(s): Children; Climbing; Danger; Mountains; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

OUR VALLEY, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in july and august
Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

OVER THE MOUNTAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like dreary prison walls
Last Line: O beating heart, be still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Mountains; Dead, The; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, listen, mary mine
Last Line: And the apennine walks abroad with the storm.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

PASSING T'IEN-MEN STREET IN CH'ANG-AN AND .. DISTANT VIEW OF CHUNG-NAN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow has gone from chung-nan; spring is almost come
Last Line: Turns his head and looks at the mountains, -- not one man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

PHANTASY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a temple of the toes
Last Line: The song of sevilla's barber.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

PIKE'S PEAK, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text
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)

POEM LEFT IN SOUGHDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I the poet gary snyder
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stones in my heart
Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe.
Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks

POSSESSION, by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me are given many things
Last Line: "the calm and peace of eventide."
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Nature; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by ANONYMOUS - NATIVE AMERICAN    Poem Text
First Line: "young man, chieftain / reared within the mountain"
Last Line: Spirit of the mountains
Subject(s): Mountains;native Americans - Religion;prayer; Hills;downs (great Britain)

PRESIDIO HILL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sabre and cross on this historic crown
Last Line: On old presidio hill.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; San Francisco; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

PROPHECY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These mountains long to show their worth
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

QUEEN MOUNTAIN, by BLANCHE BROWNE BRYANT    Poem Text
First Line: I marvel as you chameleonize
Last Line: That's when I like you best.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

REID AT FAYAL, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text
First Line: A cliff-locked port and a bluff sea wall
Last Line: In tale and song.
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

REQUIESCAT IN PACE!, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O my heart, my heart is sick a-wishing and awaiting
Last Line: And veil thy breast with icicles, and thy brow with snow!
Subject(s): Family Life; God; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

REST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills call, the dew-glad morning hills
Last Line: The mother hills where weary men find sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Mountains; Rest; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ROAD AND HILLS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall go away
Last Line: Here, in this light, there is no end. . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Wanders And Wandering; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SABRINA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text
First Line: Isle of the ocean, say, whence comest thou?
Last Line: Thou spark from the fallen one's wide flaming wing.
Subject(s): Azores; Islands; Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

SAINT GOTHARD PASS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the edge of the chasm is a slippery track
Last Line: He gilds it always, he warms it not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Alps
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SHADY HILLS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shady hills, long shady hills there be
Last Line: Fingers the valley with unshadowed light.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SIMMENTHAL, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far off the old snows ever new
Last Line: The imperishable child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Simmenthal, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SNOW VISITS MAGGIORE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Luckily the sun isn't out and the snow
Last Line: Be many a body bereft of its soul!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Snow; Winter; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SNOWY MOUNTAINS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Higher and still more high
Last Line: The mists that dance and drive before the sun.
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SOLITUDE, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text
First Line: O, mountain, wearing diadem of stars
Last Line: Dark mountain, where pale dogwood waits for spring.
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Mountains; Solitude; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

SOLOTHURN, by HEINRICH VON LAUFENBERG    Poem Text
First Line: Where, below the steep of jura
Last Line: Print of satan's fingers ten.
Variant Title(s): Saint Verena
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Soleure, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Solothurn, Switzerland

SONG OF AN ALPINE GUIDE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On zurich's spires, with rosy light
Last Line: Around me their great requiem.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SONG ON SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, it is a pleasure rare
Last Line: Floats in triumph o'er the crag!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SONG TO THE MOUNTAINS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text
First Line: Mountains loom upon the path we take
Last Line: Resting there at last we sing our song
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing;mountains; Hills;downs (great Britain)

SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text
First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water
Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair!
Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs

SONGS OF TRAVEL: 16, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the highlands, in the country places
Last Line: Life and death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SONNET: 1. A MOUNTAIN SPRING, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet
Last Line: Whose likeness is the faithless face of rose.
Subject(s): Mountains; Springs (water); Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns
Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind!
Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain
Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before.
Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue

SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 1., by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of her whose face, and lofty name
Last Line: Toward him spurring over bosworth field.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Alps; Daughters; Death; England; Mountains; Dead, The; English; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SONNETS: 6. THE BERNINA SNOW-MOUNTAINS FROM THE VALE OF ROSEG, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vista seen, like truth down glooms of thought
Last Line: Beacons thy eternal snow's refulgent shield.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Soul; Truth; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SPRING IN THE ALPS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowers are at their bacchanals
Last Line: Between the earth and sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Spring; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ST. MARTIN'S WALL, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG    Poem Text
First Line: Welcome, ye hearts of tyrol, which beat
Last Line: To stir a quicker heart-beat in every tyrolese!
Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tyrol, Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

STANZ, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature's bulwarks, built by time
Last Line: With her children scattered round.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Stanz, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

STORIED SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The weary traveler, who, all night long
Last Line: His weak steps slide, he shrieks, he sinks -- he dies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Alps; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

STORM IN THE HILLS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER    Poem Text
First Line: Close on the heel of night there came
Last Line: I saw the moonlight on her tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D.
Subject(s): Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

STORM ON SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O heaven, it is a fearful thing
Last Line: Melt out the music of my lyre.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

STRENGTH FROM THE HILLS, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up unto the hills! Thy strength is there
Last Line: And god himself more near!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Mountains; Strength; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming back over the col between
Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the sea, which is their sky, they rise
Last Line: The intolerable thought none can ignore.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

SUNSET AMID THE BUFFALO MOUNTAINS (N.E. VICTORIA), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the boulder'd majesty
Last Line: Dreamlike steals over each dim range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SUNSET ON THE CUNIMBLA VALLEY, BLUE MOUNTAINS, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat upon a windy mountain height
Last Line: Of mountain life is worthy his twenty-four.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SUNSET ON THE ORANGE MOUNTAINS, by ADRIAN BERKOWITZ    Poem Text
First Line: Apollo, homeward bound
Last Line: Their gloom o'er hill and dale.
Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SWATHED ROUND IN MIST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swathed round in mist and crown'd with cloud
Last Line: Is palpable to sense and sight.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

SWITZERLAND AND ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the switzer's varied land
Last Line: Unscathed, for art is not of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

SYNOPSIS OF A FAILED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every simile is elegy
Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TAKING TO THE HILLS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If walking, like wine, only abets a sad mood
Subject(s): Walking; Nature; Mountains; Love; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TEJUNGA VALLEY IN JUNE, by BESSIE PRYOR PALMER    Poem Text
First Line: Stand with me, nanette
Last Line: Sense but the sweetness—of the thing called life!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THANK GOD FOR MOUNTAINS, by ACHSA W. SPRAGUE    Poem Text
First Line: I see them in their beauty once again
Last Line: No more forever.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ALPINE FLOWERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meek dwellers mid yon terror-stricken cliffs!
Last Line: And freer dreams of heaven.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ALPINE SHEPHERD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In scenery sublime and rude
Last Line: Far from his native mountain-home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ALPS, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: E'en now, where alpine solitudes ascend
Last Line: Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ALPS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains of this glorious land
Last Line: What my offence hath been.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ALPS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've roamed amongst the eternal alps
Last Line: Thus hecla, etna feel; and all, save ye, around.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ALPS AT DAYBREAK, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunbeams streak the azure skies
Last Line: Perched, like an eagle's nest, on high.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ALPS; SEEN FROM MARENGO, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glory of a cloud -- without its wane
Last Line: Untainted by his life—untrusted with his grave?
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ARMSTRONG AT FAYAL, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the sun sets red, the moon shines white
Last Line: Of the yankee privateer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy

THE BACCHAE: CHORAL SONG, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the mountains wild 'tis sweet
Last Line: The bacchanal goes forth and treads the echoing ground.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE BARREN HILL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my home, a long straight hill
Last Line: Than ever it could give.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In july, when the bees swarmed thick
Last Line: But where the austrian rabble fled a thunder-storm rolled black.
Variant Title(s): The Death Of Winkelried
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Sempach, Battle Of (1386); Switzerland - Wars; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Sempach, Switzerland

THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF PENICUIK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills
Last Line: And drink the pure water from their crystal rills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

THE BECKONING HILLS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text
First Line: On a motto that hangs by my desk I can read
Last Line: The peace that my nature would find.
Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text
First Line: One evening when the sun was low
Last Line: In the big rock candy mountains
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills;downs (great Britain)

THE BLUE HILLS OF MILTON, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text
First Line: I have travelled o'er our country
Last Line: Near boston by the sea.
Subject(s): Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE BONNIE SIDLAW HILLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie clara, will you go to the bonnie sidlaw hills
Last Line: Chorus—
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

THE BRECON BEACONS AND THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair, shining mountains of my pilgrimage
Last Line: While I so spring, as if I could not fade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE BUGLER FROM THE PEAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this cry that sudden seems to shake
Last Line: The bull-elk bugles midst the topmost peaks!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Night; Snow; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime

THE CASTLE OF CHILLON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair lake, thy lovely and thy haunted shore
Last Line: The heart thy fuel, and the grave thy shrine.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE CHAMOIS HUNTERS, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away to the alps
Last Line: The wild hunters sleep.
Subject(s): Alps; Chamois; Hunting; Mountains; Hunters; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, SEEN FROM THE LAKE OF LUGANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sacred pile! Whose turrets rise
Last Line: Of fatal austrian spears.
Subject(s): Alps; Churches; Lugano (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Tell, William; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Cathedrals; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE COL DE BALM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunshine and silence on the col de balm
Last Line: In the deep calm of love and everlasting light?
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE COMFORT OF THE HILLS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here have I wandered oft these many years
Last Line: God's angelus, is sighing in the trees.
Subject(s): Comfort; God; Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun
Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray!
Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE CRYSTAL HUNTERS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er mountains bright with snow and light
Last Line: O'er mountains bright, etc.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF A YOKOHAMA LEAF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each train that passes
Last Line: By the delightful discovery drugstore.
Subject(s): Leaves; Mountains; Trees; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE DISTANT ALPS, by FLORENCE SMITH    Poem Full Text
First Line: But I must leave thee, italy! Today
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE DOWNS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely
Last Line: He masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE DOWNS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the downs high to the cool sky
Last Line: And the scent of the parching grass!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE EXILE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I have lost the mountains, I
Last Line: I see the mountains in my dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Exiles; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE EYE IN THE ROCK, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A high rock face above flathead lake
Last Line: Painted this eye that the rock might see.
Subject(s): Admiration; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Stones; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Granite; Rocks

THE FALL OF THE AAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the fierce aspect of this river
Last Line: These humbler adorations will receive.
Subject(s): Alps; Handeck (falls), Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE FAR MOUNTAINS, by ARTHUR JONSON    Poem Text
First Line: The far mountains have a crown of white
Last Line: As they tramp the delectable solitudes.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the story to your sons
Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore!
Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America

THE FORESTS OF THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lone waumbek methna! Who dares to profane
Last Line: What the red man has hallowed the white man will keep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; New Hampshire; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE FUTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After ten thousand centuries have gone
Last Line: And, if akin to him, akin in vain.
Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE GRANITE MOUNTAIN, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a mountain, lone it lies
Last Line: Find a refuge for the night.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text
First Line: "oh, long long"
Last Line: And the grass on the mountain
Subject(s): Grass;mountains;native Americans; Hills;downs (great Britain);indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America

THE HILL TOP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The burly driver at my side
Last Line: The whole round world beside!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HILL-FLOWERS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moving through the dew, moving through the dew
Last Line: Moving through the dew, moving through the dew.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HILL-VALLEYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hill-valleys, the cool valleys, valleys that I / know
Last Line: To your dear love waiting and your own home light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HILLS, by RAY D. BLAND    Poem Text
First Line: I saw the hills in childhood years
Last Line: Against a changeless sky.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HILLS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no joy of earth that thrills
Last Line: Clad on with sleep and memory.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HILLS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my soul, let us go unto our hills
Last Line: O my soul, let us go unto our hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HILLS, by A. J. PATCH    Poem Text
First Line: Born of the ice, the children of the ancient
Last Line: Till the shadows of the twilight steal along the old hill-trail.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HILLS OF CARRARA, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst a vale of springing leaves
Last Line: Responsive to the charm of those who -touch it well!
Subject(s): Carrara, Italy; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HILLS OF WALES (TO MEMORY OF THOMAS ELLIS & M. LLEWELYN WILLIAMS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly the ages come and go
Last Line: The hills remain.
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen

THE HILLS WE LOVE, by GRACE LOWE BROADHEAD    Poem Text
First Line: There are hills down near the south seas
Last Line: Are the only hills we love.
Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 70. THE HILL-SUMMIT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This feast-day of the sun, his altar there
Last Line: And the last bird fly into the last light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE JOY OF THE HILLS, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ride on the mountain tops, I ride
Last Line: My body's a bough in the wind, my heart a bird!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LAKE AT ZURICH, by JAMES COCHRANE    Poem Text
First Line: Richmond, dost thou remember rapperschwyl
Last Line: Nor is of eden feelings all bereft.
Variant Title(s): On The Lake Of Zurich
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LAKE OF CONSTANCE, by GUSTAVE SCHWAB    Poem Text
First Line: The horseman rides in the valley's glow
Last Line: A grave on the shore of the lake he found.
Variant Title(s): The Horseman And The Lake Of Constance
Subject(s): Alps; Constance (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LAKE OF GENEVA, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain then, clad with eternal snow
Last Line: Licks from their cloudy magazine the snows.
Variant Title(s): Switzerland
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

THE LAKE OF ZURICH, by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair is the majesty of all thy works
Last Line: Elysium all the vale.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern sky of azure hue
Last Line: From out the mountain lake.
Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Trees; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew
Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill.
Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LITTLE HILL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, here the air is sweet and still
Last Line: I think I am its mother!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LITTLE HILL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a little hill, a round green hill, in my own country
Last Line: For the song I knew in the dusk and dew and the little green hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Irish; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LITTLE PATH, by SALLIE P. FITZHUGH    Poem Text
First Line: It winds across a little hill
Last Line: To the haven of my heart.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LONESOME HILL, by LILLIAS C. NEVIN    Poem Text
First Line: Low I hear the night wind
Last Line: Past the lonesome hill.
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE LONG HILL, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must have passed the crest a while ago
Last Line: The rest of the way will be only going down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text
First Line: The long trail calls!
Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips

THE LONG WAY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two miles of ridin' from the school, without a bit of trouble
Last Line: That sunset fadin' yellow through the notches of the hills?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

THE LUCKFLOWER, by HARVEY W. FLINK    Poem Text
First Line: Upon a rugged hill-side
Last Line: Upon the mountain sides.
Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Flowers; Mountains; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE LURE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw night leave her halos down
Last Line: When south-east winds are blowing low.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MONASTERY OF MARIA EINSIEDELN, by JAMES COCHRANE    Poem Text
First Line: Twas eventide in summer's glorious prime
Last Line: Before me thus, all unexpected, brought!
Variant Title(s): On First Seeing The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln
Subject(s): Alps; Einsiedeln, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOST-SACRED MOUNTAIN, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Space, and the twelve clean winds of heaven
Last Line: In the white windy presence of eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL    Poem Text
First Line: Whosoever shall say to thee
Last Line: Swallow thee.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain held the town as in a shadow
Last Line: Gave them their marching orders and was moving.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A golden cloud slept for her pleasure
Last Line: Down to the desert still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain heaves before me, green and gray
Last Line: Within this loftier sphere where ye do reign.
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Altar whereon the lordly sacrifice
Last Line: As sings the ocean to the listening shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN, by EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What wrecks of time and storm are crumbling here!
Last Line: To faiths that blaze immaculately bright.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN BOY, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherd of the alps am I
Last Line: The mountain boy am I!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If, the rude mountain turf adorning
Last Line: And had bloom'd and died unseen.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE MOUNTAIN HEART'S-EASE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting
Last Line: Thy face is shining still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN LILAC, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the hills
Last Line: Upon the hills.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN MAID, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the mountain maid, new hampshire!
Last Line: Is the rarest of them all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN MAIDENS; A CANTATA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars die out, and the moon grows dim
Last Line: We are safely home at last!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN OF SKELETONS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain strikes into a clouded sky
Last Line: In what forgotten war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Mountains; Skeletons; Soldiers; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War

THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LOVERS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love scorns degrees! The low he lifteth high
Last Line: Thro' the long years cold harborage found therein.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN SQUATTER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Herein my mountain home
Last Line: All west of gundagai!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Horses; Mountains; Sheep; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN STORM, by MILLARD FILLMORE BUMGARNER    Poem Text
First Line: Stand up on high, ye crags and peaks
Last Line: And sunshine paints the crags again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAIN TO THE PINE, by CLARENCE HAWKES    Poem Text
First Line: Thou tall, majestic monarch of the wood
Last Line: And the infinite stars in heaven are old to me.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAINEER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, at the eagle's height
Last Line: And god is alone with him.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAINS, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS    Poem Text
First Line: Wind blows upon them salt-edged from the ocean
Last Line: And the dipper all alone in the north!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAINS OF BERNE, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I turn the pages and recall
Last Line: The colors which the soul holds fast!
Variant Title(s): A Swiss Guide-book
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

THE MOUNTAINS OF GLAMORGAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains of glamorgan
Last Line: That look towards the sea.
Subject(s): Mountains; Mystery; Nature; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen

THE MOUNTAINS OF MERAN AT SUNRISE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like snow-white tents, their tapering forms
Last Line: Bloom in the crystal air.
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Mountains; Sun; Sunrise; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE MOUNTAINS STOOP TO HILLS ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains stoop to hills and hills to stones
Last Line: Whose stones and water carve a symphony.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

THE NEW EDEN; MEETING OF BERKSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce could the parting ocean close
Last Line: Till ocean is its only wall!
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Drought; Horticulture

THE PAGAN SAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this rock-girdled hight / these twenty barren years
Last Line: And, ah, it may not be! ...
Subject(s): Dawn; Memory; Mountains; Prayer; Solitude; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE PAPS OF DANA, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains stand, and stare around
Last Line: Taught a little modesty!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ST. GOTHARD. TO MY CHILDREN, by GEORGIANA (SPENCER) CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye plains, where threefold harvests press the ground
Last Line: And more -- o transport! -- reach its home and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Devonshire, Duchess Of
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

THE PASSING MOON, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my loggia bright I watch to-night
Last Line: Yet sail another sea.
Subject(s): Life; Moon; Mountains; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

THE PATRIOT ENGINEER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs! May I shake your hands?
Last Line: The glory freedom radiates!
Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

THE PEASANT OF THE ALPS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where cliffs arise by winter crown'd
Last Line: And love and happiness are mine no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Alps; Avalanches; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been to tientai
Last Line: Only brings men pain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Buddha; Buddhists; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Towering cliffs were the home I chose
Last Line: What good are empty names
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 10, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the cliffs I sat alone
Last Line: The moon is the hub of the mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Caverns; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 131, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born thirty years ago
Last Line: To lie in a stream and wash out my ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Retirement; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 133, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I can't bear to watch birds play
Last Line: And heading south for cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 157, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain has so many wonders
Last Line: Unless it's clear you can't get through
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 16, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People ask the way to cold mountain
Last Line: You would be here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 169, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I escaped to cold mountain
Last Line: I'm happy here in the cliffs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Mountains; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 175, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The place where I've retired
Last Line: When I first feel the sun's heat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 191, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cinnabar hills rise up to the clouds
Last Line: Vine linked to vine stream joined to stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 199, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On ancient rocks are ancient tracks
Last Line: No need to ask if it's east or west
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 203, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above cold mountain the moon shines alone
Last Line: Buried in the skandhas submerged in the body
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 205, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My true home is on cold mountain
Last Line: I can go anywhere everywhere is perfect
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 207, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tientai mountains are my home
Last Line: The joys of roaming free are wonderful indeed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Freedom; Happiness; Mountains; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 213, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hiked yesterday to the summit
Last Line: Is now a pile of ashes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hiking; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 219, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People who wander among clouds
Last Line: In spring the birds kuan-kuan
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 224, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I enjoy the simple path
Last Line: Until the moon comes up cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 226, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see tientai summit
Last Line: I've always loved friends of the way
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Buddha; Buddhists; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 256, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where cold mountain dwells in peace
Last Line: Resting on a perilous ledge
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 259, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the joys of the mountains
Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 26, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I came to cold mountain
Last Line: Heaven and earth can crumble and change
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Comfort; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 261, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The floodplain river is wide
Last Line: Everywhere spreads its fame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 263, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rising beyond the sky
Last Line: Tientai stands unrivaled
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 274, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold cliff's remoteness is what I like
Last Line: But the pearl of my mind stays safe
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Old Age; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 278, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I sat before the cliffs
Last Line: A mind without a care
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 282, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a lofty mountain peak
Last Line: A song in which there is no zen
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Zen Buddhism; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 287, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is nothing but clouds
Last Line: He remains a man beyond form
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 290, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Relaxing below cold cliff
Last Line: Reading the poems of the ancients
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 297, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is a leakproof cliff
Last Line: I'm content to laugh and sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 300, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On cold mountain road
Last Line: What are my signs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 301, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is so cold
Last Line: An old man survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 302, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain I live on
Last Line: It's always deserted
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 303, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain's remoteness
Last Line: He would know the tune
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 304, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among high cliffs / there's plenty of breeze
Last Line: A white-haired old man
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Old Age; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 31, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain man lives under thatch
Last Line: A shelf full of nothing but books
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Mountains; Reading; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 32, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who takes the cold mountain road
Last Line: And sit with me in the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 35, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trail to cold mountain is faint
Last Line: Year after year no spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 4, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking for a refuge
Last Line: He forgot the way he came
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Taoism; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 44, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I usually live in seclusion
Last Line: The spring is dry but not the stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 48, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath high cliffs I live alone
Last Line: My dipper on a branch click clack
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I reached cold mountain
Last Line: Suddenly both eyes filled with tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 6, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains are so cold
Last Line: Looks in vain for the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 71, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone lives in a mountain gorge
Last Line: He stands alone steadfast
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 9, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I longed to visit the eastern cliff
Last Line: And slept with a cloud for a pillow
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 17, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have millions of gathas
Last Line: All you'll see is mountains
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 45, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up high the trail turns steep
Last Line: To wait for that lone crane once more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails

THE PRELUDE: BOOK 6. CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves were fading when to esthwaite's banks
Last Line: Spread round my steps like sunshine o'er green fields.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE RIVER AND THE HILL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And they shook their sweetness out in their sleep
Last Line: "of that hard and senseless hill!"
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ROAD TO APPENZELL, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green sunny road that skirts the foot
Last Line: The yellow-coated pumpkins grow!
Subject(s): Alps; Appenzell, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain road goes up and down
Last Line: The lonely road to gundagai.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Kisses; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails

THE SILENCE OF THE HILLS, by WILLIAM PRESCOTT FOSTER    Poem Text
First Line: The windy forest, rousing from its sleep
Last Line: In god's great day, when all that sleep shall wake!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed
Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears!
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE SLEEPING GIANT, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text
First Line: O for some language from on high
Last Line: Still looking up to god.
Subject(s): Mountains; Yellowstone National Park; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun
Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE SNOW ON SADDLE MOUNTAIN, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The only thing that can be relied on
Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE SONNET OF THE MOUNTAIN, by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from afar these mountain tops I view
Last Line: In them the snows, in me the fires abide.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE STYRIAN ALPS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In steyermark, green steyermark
Last Line: In the beechen groves of steyermark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Variant Title(s): Steyermark
Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE SUMMITS, by VICTOR DE LAPRADE    Poem Text
First Line: I will go and drink the waters pure that feed the rolling river
Last Line: Shall never guess the wayfarer returned is even he.
Subject(s): Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory; Dead, The

THE THRUSH AND POLYPHEMUS, by JACK MERTEN    Poem Text
First Line: A mountain oak core-riven by a gale
Last Line: "I see, polyphemus, where your rocks miss hitting."
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE VANISHED MOUNTAINS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text
First Line: Miles upon miles they toss, the wrathful waves
Last Line: For here the snowy peaks are seen no more.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

THE VOLCANO HOUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text
First Line: Near mauna loa's mountain top
Last Line: That wonder land doth seem.
Subject(s): Hawaii; Mountains; Volcanoes; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE WEIRD OF MICHAEL SCOTT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild wind moaned: fast waned the light
Last Line: A black corpse tossing on the tide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fire; Mountains; Soul; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THE WEST, by PEARL V. DODDRIDGE    Poem Text
First Line: In space, unlimited and wide
Last Line: The heart with song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hadley, Pearl V.
Subject(s): Mountains; Serenity; West (u.s.); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Southwest; Pacific States

THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To build the trout a crystal stair
Last Line: And whisper sorrow into sleep!
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Brooks; Streams; Creeks

THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that
Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere
Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us
Last Line: The berkshires, %have good memories
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory

THREE HILLS, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN    Poem Text
First Line: There is a hill in england
Last Line: To souls in jeopardy.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Mountains; Soldiers; War; World War I; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War

TO A MOUNTAIN, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee, o father of the stately peaks
Last Line: There rolls the grand hymn of the deathless wave.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty and health do companion thee, friend
Last Line: Born of an impulse divine.
Subject(s): Beauty; Brooks; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO LORD VISCOUNT STRANGFORD, ABOARD THE PHAETON FRIGATE, OFF AZORES, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet moon! If like crotona's sage
Last Line: Is one, whose heart remembers thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): The Moon, A Tablet
Subject(s): Azores; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO MERAN'S NORTHERN MOUNTAINS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathe on my soul your everlasting calm
Last Line: Retain, as well, the sweetness of the rose.
Subject(s): Fate; Life; Mountains; Soul; Destiny; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO MRS. MACMARLAND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Im schnee der alpen - so it runs
Last Line: The ashes of a bad cigar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO MY MOTHER FROM THE APENNINES, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight the lone mountains on
Last Line: I'm dark without thy constant love.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mothers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO MY MOUNTAIN, by MAHDAH PAYSON    Poem Text
First Line: O my mountain, my mountain
Last Line: Can you hear?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your peaks are beautiful, ye apennines!
Last Line: Pine silently for the redeeming hour.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Italy; Mountains; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO THE BLUE, HIGH MOUNTAIN, by REBECCA EMERY MORTON    Poem Text
First Line: The japanese have fujiyama, we
Last Line: White-capped above a sea of amethyst!
Subject(s): Mountains; Pikes Peak, Colorado; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO THE MOUNTAINS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And when the sun puts out his lamp
Last Line: With unexplored grace and savage frowns.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO THE RIVER ARVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not from the sands or cloven rocks
Last Line: Among the blossoms at their feet.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TO THE RIVER TRAUN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is in a mountain mood
Last Line: Have sat beside the banks of traun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Trapping; Traun (river), Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. FORMS ETERNAL AS THE MOUNTAINS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, when for an instant my friends (and I myself)
Last Line: Those other forms that move not from their place.
Subject(s): Friendship; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TANZBODELI, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on a rock that juts above the lauterbrunnen valley
Last Line: Forming a circle, dance—till the mountains too wheel round us.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tanzbodeli (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TWO AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, by JAMES RORTY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should hasten or cry out
Last Line: See, I bring you gifts of silence, and cool snows.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Landscape; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome
Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind.
Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell
Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught!
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple

UNTERWALDEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now couch thyself where, heard with fear afar
Last Line: Shouts from the echoing hills with savage joy.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Unterwalden, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

UNTO THE HILLS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lift my eyes unto the friendly hills
Last Line: My eyes, my voice, to thank him for this gift.
Subject(s): Holidays; Mountains; Thanksgiving; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

UP ON THE MOUNTAIN, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up on the mountain, where nobody comes
Last Line: "and the wild bee hums --"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness

UPLANDS, by GLORY E. SCOTT    Poem Text
First Line: The memory of the hills / is in my eyes
Last Line: To seek their loved immensity.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

UPLANDS IN MAY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder as of old things
Last Line: The great strong hills are humble.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

UPON LEAVING THE BLACK HILLS, by A. JEAN HOLMES    Poem Text
First Line: Beautiful hills, beneath whose shadows
Last Line: God, greater far, we trembling strive to feel.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

UPON THE HILL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan
Last Line: How many thousand times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is dead?
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

UPON THE MOUNTAIN'S DISTANT HEAD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

VALUE IN MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are those to whom value is a weapon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a green isle needs must be
Last Line: And the earth grow young again.
Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

VIRGINIA, by VIRGINIA STAIT    Poem Text
First Line: I know not how her trees compare
Last Line: Me, resurrection's spring!
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Trees; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WAR IS KIND: 18, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis
First Line: In the night / grey heavy clouds muffled the valleys
Last Line: And the peaks looked toward god alone.
Variant Title(s): The Peaks
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB    Poem Text
First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago
Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet.
Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War

WASHINGTON, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON    Poem Text
First Line: I think if I should die
Last Line: Once more to washington.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Washington (state); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips

WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind
Last Line: To write his name
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WATERSHED, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the land is tilted / like a gambrel roof. The world
Last Line: The knife that cuts the rain in two, the lie
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WESSEX HEIGHTS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some heights in wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand
Last Line: And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wessex, England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WHERE THE MOUNTAIN SIPS THE SEA, by CHARLES JAMES    Poem Text
First Line: Where the mountain sips the sea
Last Line: Heed it, and you will rejoice.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean

WHITESIDE MOUNTAIN, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text
First Line: Are you calling me, my mountain
Last Line: Calling coaxingly to me.
Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Mountains; Valleys; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WILDCAT LEDGE (COLORADO), by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text
First Line: The platte, long wandering but caught at last
Last Line: "with their exultant cry: ""the hills! The hills!"
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Platte River; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WILLIAM TELL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chains may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee
Last Line: For the great work to set thy country free.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

WILLIAM TELL, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smile-dimpled lake woo'd to bathe in its deep
Last Line: [music, and the curtain falls.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Alps; Freedom; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss

WINTER MOUNTAIN, by MARIANA BACHMAN    Poem Text
First Line: Mount taylor is a grandma in her cap
Last Line: Her cup held pure; while we mix gold with dross.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WITH THE CATTLE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The drought is down on field and flock
Last Line: Their heroes from the overland who brought the cattle home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cattle; God; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WITH THE MAJESTY OF MOUNTAINS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text
First Line: Winds cry to the peaks; trees hush, elate
Last Line: My stript soul is lifted ... A new tongue I speak.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes

WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hills and waters fostered you
Last Line: Its kingdom in the thought of man.
Subject(s): Eyes; Mountains; Time; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

WRITTEN AMONG THE BASSES ALPS, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you in heaven no hope -- on earth no care
Last Line: Breathe in this human dust its living soul.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A broken moon on the cold water
Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)

ZENITH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We watched the gradual rising of a star
Last Line: Beneath the king's own smile, -- perpetual zenith thine.
Subject(s): Alps; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mountains; Night; Stars; Nativity, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime

ZERMATT: TO THE MATTERHORN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty-two years since, up against the sun
Last Line: When darkness filled the earth till the ninth hour.
Subject(s): Matterhorn; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)