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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOUNTAINS Matches Found: 1237 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 2:00 A.M., by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She awoke in the night and thought about dying Last Line: And go back to sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 3, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Bats swallow my shadow Last Line: My hand on the horizon %of its tail the scaly sieve Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fights; Mist; Mountains; Sea 7 A.M. - LATE NOVEMBER, by BEN L. HIATT Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 FACING A MOUNTAIN (2), by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What poetry demands is worse Subject(s): Mountains 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) ABANDONED ROAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wheel ruts scarred the bedrock here and there Last Line: A road that leads to nowhere for no reason Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ABOUT WRITING AND PUBLISHING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There's more to writing poetry than you think Last Line: It might be better Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO LU MOUNTAIN, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Straw sandals, cane of green bamboo Last Line: My lu mountain poems are summed up in this Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Mountains ADIRONDACK EVENING, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: Behind the olive hills, the day fires wane Last Line: The peace we left, and whither we return. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Evening; Sunset; Twilight ADIRONDACK SOUNDS, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I put the words in his mouth Last Line: I say to him paradise %and hear the pure word Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Youth AFTER FROST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The katydids and crickets had Last Line: The judgment day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AFTER HURRICANE HUGO, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'm picking up wood from the lawn Last Line: Where we slept Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AFTER MANY A GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After many a summer flies the swan Last Line: Is still trying Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) AGAIN THE TREE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The tree was chosen by the boy and dog Last Line: Its lights are hope. Even the sad heart lifts! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AH, TENERIFFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm kneeling — still Subject(s): Mountains 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) ALASKAN MOUNTAIN POEM #1, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark branches %dark leaves Last Line: And the mountain %was gone Subject(s): Mountains 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) ALL DAY, by STEVE SANFIELD Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains ALMOST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I had almost forgotten the smell of november Last Line: But I had almost forgotten Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It twists my heart to walk alone Last Line: Now pull my heart strings like a tether Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She stitched the remnants of her life Last Line: And wondered why she'd never known Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALPHABET FOR INSOMNIACS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I can't sleep Last Line: Praise be! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALPINE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About mountains it is useless to argue Last Line: Like a rich man through the eye of a needle. %the mind has its own level to find Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Mountains 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 ALPINE VILLAGE, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW Poem Source First Line: Their world stands all on end; no place at all Subject(s): Alps; Mountains ALPS IN SUMMER, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garland I will weave of mountain flowers Subject(s): Alps; Mountains ALPS IN WINTER, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once more, world of whiteness ... Of snow Subject(s): Alps; Mountains AMERICA WAS PROMISES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: America was promises Last Line: America kept its promises to you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 HILLS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the roadside, like the flowers of gold Last Line: With graces more abounding. Variant Title(s): The Wife;sketches Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire 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 HOUR OF IDLENESS; IN THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, by MARION CUMMINGS Poem Text First Line: To lie here prone, wholly at rest Last Line: (I know the lore of fairies) on fern seed. Subject(s): Nature; Santa Cruz Mountains, California 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) ANCAPAGARI, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning of the tribe this name ancapagari was given to these Last Line: Who has come from among us Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Mountains ANCIENT CONVOLUTIONS, by ELAINE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Volcanic steepness Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 ANDES: 4-9 INCLUSIVE, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: The mountains rise higher than the castle of the condors Last Line: Gravely the two men turn around Subject(s): Explorers; Incas; Mountains; Peru; Travel 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) ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years have gone. It is spring Last Line: Of your death Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains ANDREW RAN PAST ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew ran past me yesterday Last Line: I know that life is good, hard - got Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANGEL WRESTLER (WITH BLOND WIG), by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They come and offer maize Last Line: Rain, thee serenity of lack mountains Subject(s): Mountains ANNIVERSARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The day approaches Last Line: And I must grieve Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANNIVERSARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The years slipped by as easily Last Line: With a shared look and the word unspoken Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) ANTIQUE SHOP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is an attic air about the place Last Line: The shrewd horse - trader gleam that's in her eye! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANY QUESTIONS?, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Who wound the clock that set the galaxies in Last Line: Questions seek the unknown Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APPALACHIAN SPRING, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: A tuning fork on the mountain Last Line: The april twilight's field of images was conjured up Subject(s): Appalachia; Aviation And Aviators; Maryland; Mountains APPLE TREES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The smell of winter apples in a bin Last Line: The red heartwood burned with a steady flame Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APRIL CONVERSATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She pressed the seed in the april ground Last Line: Who put the life in the little brown seed? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APRIL FOOL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'll always be an april kind of fool Last Line: The world is young. A fool in april knows Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ARARAT, by JACK ANTREASSIAN Poem Source First Line: Twin peaks of legend icons draped with snow Subject(s): Ararat (mountain); Mountains ARARAT, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shall sleep-out together through the dark Last Line: Whether those shores are habitable or no Subject(s): Ararat (mountain); Mountains ARRIVING AT BA GORGE IN THE MORNING, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Daybreak in late spring, I embark at ba gorge Last Line: Before the old joy of being in new mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Mountains ASCENT TO THE SIERRAS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising Last Line: Against the wolf in men's hearts? Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains ASCENT TO THE SIERRAS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising Last Line: To make you bitter music; how else will you take bonds of the %future, against the wolf in men's hea Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains AT GUSU, by CHIAO-JAN Poem Source First Line: The ancient terrace now invisible Last Line: At cold peak, a little heap of dirt Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism AT PINAFORE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Ruffles and lace and furbelows Last Line: Little girls have grown up, and the days are long Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AT SUNRISE ALONG THE AMERICAN RIVER, by WILLIAM HOWARTH Poem Source First Line: Vermilion %the road-cuts hold eyes Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 DARK BANQUET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: At the dark banquet, who shall be fed? Last Line: The importunate living? The accusing dead? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AT THE PEAK OF BRIGHT SLEEP, by DIANE P. LANDO Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 THE SUPERMARKET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fields in a basket, glowing and green Last Line: Weighed in a scale by the measured pound! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 TIMBERLINE, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN Poem Source First Line: Here is the high arena of the winds Subject(s): Mountains 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) AT WINTER SOLSTICE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Dream, dream slow dreams Last Line: And darkness melting like a drift of snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) AUNT ANNIE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She was death on germs and spiders Last Line: But she listened when I talked Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AURORA, JULY DOWNHILL, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Fresh from a rainstorm %I walk the hill down Last Line: Steps aside, %to make room Subject(s): Memory; Mountains AUTUMN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Golden and warm the summer rivers ran Last Line: To last them through the season of the dark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) AUTUMN CROCUS, by HELEN Y. LUKE Poem Source First Line: I knew that I would miss you on these steps Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains AUTUMN FANTASY, by JEAN PRITCHARD Poem Text First Line: Autumn has bestowed her accolade Last Line: Your whispered summons come. Subject(s): Autumn; Blue Ridge Mountains; Fantasy; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SUNSET ON THE SIERRA NEVADAS, by DOROTHY BOARDMAN Poem Text First Line: I love the autumn view Last Line: Over all the landscape valley. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Fall AUTUMN WALK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Walk out of summer. Step into fall Last Line: Walk out of summer. Step into fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AWAKENING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Just when the day seemed drab Last Line: And a gleaming gem of sand Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AZORES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great green ships Last Line: Ahead are one Subject(s): Azores; Mountains AZORES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great green ships Last Line: The void behind, the void %ahead are one Subject(s): Azores; Mountains BACKSIDES OF HOUSES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Backsides of houses don't pretend Last Line: And sandboxes bulge with buried treasure Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BALD-CAP REVISITED, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven years, and two fair months beside Last Line: All life more dear and glad and wonderful. Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire BALLAD OF MOUNT JING, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: Swarms of flies cluster around my sick horse Last Line: At a moment like this the traveler's heart %is a flag in the wind a hundred feet high Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains BALLAD OF THE TANNERY WITCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Jim backman wed the black haired maid Last Line: The stump was raw and red! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BANISHMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The cliffs are battered like the people Last Line: My dreams have banished me Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains; Waiting BANQUET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Dine on the dictionary Last Line: For daily fare Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BARN CAT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The barn cat always greets you at the stable door Last Line: That a lady is a lady, no matter where she lives Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 BEAUTY TREATMENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The meadow is dowdy in its faded brown Last Line: Is a delicate powdering of snow! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEE PASTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here there is pasture for the sun struck bees Last Line: Spread thickly on his crusty home baked bread Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEFORE THE DELUGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am tired of the rain Last Line: Forgive me if I, too, hesitate and wonder Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEFORE THE STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees are wringing their anxious hands Last Line: Before the great sky river flows Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 MT. NEBO, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: At the crossing, green swales Last Line: Kinetic plants front the dark Subject(s): Mountains 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) BESIDE THE MOUNTAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Living beside the mountain all my life Last Line: The mountain still will bulk against the sky Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 6/23/97, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds slept-in this morning Last Line: In single syllables %before breakfast Subject(s): Birds; Mountains 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 BIRD TREE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Nuthatch and titmouse and purple finch Last Line: Blossom here while tulips sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRDS OF A FEATHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Swirl of black in the back yard Last Line: Around blue shoulders of the sky Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHDAY LINES FOR OCTOBER'S CHILD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: October's the month of frost and flame Last Line: I'm glad that you were born! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHDAY SONG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Now that you're one, going on two Last Line: Now that you're one, going on two! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHDAY VERSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You have fulfilled my dreams for you Last Line: The years have blessed you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BITTERSWEET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: O bittersweet is the taste of life Last Line: Hold on to the hurrying years Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) BLACK LEAD MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Where the trail climbs free of brush Last Line: In the mountains shadow, %always, only the earth Subject(s): Mountains; Nature 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) BLIZZARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is a day for knitting mittens Last Line: And school is as far as the milky way! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BLOOM UPON THE MOUNTAIN, STATED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The experience Subject(s): Mountains BLUE HILLS, by PHILIP FRANCIS LITTLE Poem Source First Line: The hills, the blue hills, what say the blue Subject(s): Mountains BLUE SHIRT, by PAUL W. SKEETERS Poem Text First Line: I saw a boy with a new blue shirt today Last Line: And carry wistful fire in my eyes. Subject(s): Dreams; Himalayas (mountains); Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tops of the higher peaks Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tops of the higher peaks Last Line: This flower to its hidden senses Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 BODENSEE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sweet, oh soft, this interbreathing space Subject(s): Alps; Mountains 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) BOY OF THE ALPS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly, alpine rover %tread the mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Alps; Mountains BREAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is an ancient magic in the hands Last Line: Give us this day our daily bread Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BREAD OF HATHERLEIGH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We made a pilgrimage to see the town Last Line: Was what we came to hatherleigh to find Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BREAKFAST TIME AT THE EAST DELAWARE OUTLET AT LOWE'S CORNERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Switches click, gates open and water pushes through Last Line: They go Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) BRIGHT HARVEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These fields are not so poor as one might think Last Line: On these wide fields where beauty always grows! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BROADWAY IN THE OZARKS: NIGHT, by BETTY CORBETT BASSETT Poem Text First Line: The tall, flung trees Last Line: The virgin, noisy night untouched by man-made melody. Subject(s): Ozarks (mountains) BROOK LULLABY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sleep, the sound of singing water Last Line: Swinging over the singing brook Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) BURNING MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No blacker than others in winter, but Last Line: Still cold, that should last us, and our grandchildren Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mountains 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 EARTH RESTORED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: From grime and bitterness of city street Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BY SQUATTER'S RIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I claim this lovely Last Line: These years Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 CAPE COD - JULY 30, 1984, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The restless water sweeps the sand Last Line: Sandpipers and gulls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) CARP, by M. ROSE Poem Source First Line: Ukranian fisherman Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) CAUCASUS, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below me the caucasus. Lone on the height Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains) CAUCASUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fit throne for such a power! Magnificent! Last Line: Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians CAUCASUS (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight / the moon arose: and lo! The ethereal cliffs Last Line: Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians CELLAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: If I could lift the trap door once again Last Line: And smell the cellar breath, remembering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CHAMOUNY AT SUNRISE, by FRIEDERIKE BRUNN Poem Source First Line: From the deep shadow of the silent fir-grove Subject(s): Alps; Mountains 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) CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By easy slope to west, as if it had Last Line: That thou wert great when homer was not born, %and ere thou change all human song shall die! Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Mountains CHOCURUA, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pioneer of a great company Last Line: He steals, conspicuous, from the mountain-crowd. Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire CHORE TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The milker's steady hoosh - a - hoosh Last Line: Here in this peaceful place! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CHURNING THE BUTTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The dasher's steady thump goes on and on Last Line: Cool buttermilk is tangy on his tongue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CICADAS, by ARTHUR KUSHNER Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains CIRCLE ON THE CALENDAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How awful to be certain Last Line: Is harder far to bear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CIRCLES - AFTER SEEING IRELAND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Circles are easiest and earliest to build Last Line: My life lived in circles too Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CITY OF STONES - 1962 CLARYVILLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I walk in the city of stones Last Line: Lichened words, once watered with warm tears Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CLASS 1-A, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy is like the awkward, leggy colt Last Line: His hands will ache to hold a plow again Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CLEANING THE ATTIC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The room is full of curious ghosts Last Line: As they go up in smoke Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras Last Line: Many men, along time, comrade Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains CLIMBING THE SMALL HILL, CRAIGBANK FARM, by PRISCILLA FRAKE Poem Source First Line: I still remember Last Line: As I swung over and stumbled down Subject(s): Mountains; Nature CLOUDS ON WHITEFACE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So lovingly the clouds caress his head Last Line: A sullen rock, his brow to heaven he bares. Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire COLD MOUNTAIN IS FULL OF WEIRD SIGHTS, by HAN-SHAN Poem Source Last Line: At a touch of rain the whole mountain shimmers - %but only in good weather can you make the climb Subject(s): Mountains COLDEST NIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cold is a creature who pads and growls Last Line: He will get us all if the red fire dies! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COMING BACK TO MOUNTAINS, by BIANCA BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: These quiet lazy mountains are my own Subject(s): Mountains COMING OF MONT BLANC, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Running along the high level Subject(s): Alps; Mountains COMMENCEMENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The tired old warriors on the hill Last Line: Give him a better blade to hold! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COMPOSITION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sliced onions, pulled this morning from the row Last Line: Fit for a king, or for the farmer's supper Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CONFESSION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am part pagan Last Line: Who sneaks home from chasing deer Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) CONQUERORS: A PAGE IN HISTORY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The swath cut by the obsidian blade Last Line: A few coins washed up on a florida beach Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) CONTENT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should be content Last Line: And not as a comment %on my life Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains 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) CONVERSATION IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you were to ask me why I dwell among green mountains Last Line: There is another heaven and earth beyond the world of men Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Mountains COUNTRY DOCTOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The doctor was an angry man Last Line: I am alive today Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COUNTRY DUSK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wind dies down, and if you Last Line: Meant to be Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COURTSHIP AMONG THE CUMBERLANDS, 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; Cumberland Mountains 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) COVERLET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I would weave words for your first birthday Last Line: A gift to wrap the child I've yet to see Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CRAZY QUILT - NEW YORK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here earth holds pastures, meadows, airports Last Line: Little roads and paths, rail fences and old stone walls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CREATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After the long dearth, the fallow time Last Line: The blank page sprouts with the new green words Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) CROSS LOTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Young johnny burroughs went cross lots to school Last Line: But burroughs wandered cross lots all his days Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CROSSING THE BARRIER MOUNTAINS, by ZHANG ZHENG-JIAN Poem Source First Line: Barrier mountains, crossed at dawn's moon Last Line: And when they hear the sobbing waters, %all are stricken by the heartbreaking sound Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Mountains CROSSING THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE IN WINTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cars play a monotonous follow - the - leader Last Line: Clouds swirl up from the whirling wheels Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CRY OF THE HILLBORN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am homesick for the mountains Subject(s): Mountains; Nature CYCLISTS, by JOHN CHRISTOPHER PINE Poem Source First Line: Bent low over the handlebars Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) DARK PRINCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I was young I knew the dark prince Last Line: Why did you wait so long? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) DAY IN MAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Linda's dresses are billowed wide Last Line: Play - at - home day! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DAY MY FATHER CRIED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The day my father cried Last Line: That day my whole world changed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DAY THE ALLIGATOR CAME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I've never been sure what my fence is about Last Line: Any chance to communicate was missed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DEAD IN THE SIERRAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His footprints have failed us Last Line: And iron is rust. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains DEATH ON SOUTH HILL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The old woman lay on the crumpled feather bed Last Line: At the door: if I can help, will you let me know? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECAYING, by JEAN PAPE Poem Source First Line: I am like the fruit Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains DECEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The punctual sun hangs lower now Last Line: And warmth of christmas is heart - whole Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER NIGHT AT RUDOLPH FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A moonless night Last Line: For the holidays Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER PASTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Wintergreen and partridge berry Last Line: This is the lean - ribbed time of year Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER RAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: December rain is like no other rain Last Line: The last ablution of the dying year Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER WALK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Come with me to the snowy woods Last Line: Will watch us walk in the glistening wood! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECOMPOSTION, by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE Poem Source First Line: The beast lay Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains DEDICATION TO 'RHYMES FROM THE CUMBERLAND', by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring this little book Last Line: The dear old cumberlands. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains DEER IN THE GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Delicate hooves leave cloven prints Last Line: In the april dusk Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DEER PARK, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: The mountain is empty, no man can be seen; Last Line: Shines again on green moss, above Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Forests; Mountains DEER SEASON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Three does slip from the woods at dawn Last Line: Sudden death Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DELIGHT BECOMES PICTORIAL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that's — the skies Subject(s): Sky; Mountains; Nature 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) DIARIES OF JULIANA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not sea harvest or land harvest Last Line: A life I read and live as if it were my own Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DIGGING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy is barefooted in crisp frosty weather Last Line: The earth on his feet and the song in his heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DINOSAUR HUNTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He sees them in the present tense Last Line: A hundred million years or so Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DISCOVERY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I never knew what water really meant Last Line: Pounded in me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DISPOSSESSED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Everything comes processed nowadays Last Line: Program. Compute. Respond by rote Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DISTANT ALPS, by FLORENCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: But I must leave thee, italy! Today Subject(s): Alps; Mountains DISTANT MOUNTAINS, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain colors, whether near or far Last Line: A stranger walks by, ignorant of their names Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Mountains DISTANT THUNDER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The distant thunder rolling down the skies Last Line: Our plenty crumbles and our food is dust Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) DOG AT FULL MOON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The full moon stirs some memory in the dog Last Line: For worlds long - buried he has never known Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DOG DAYS IN VERMONT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cistern on the hill, sucked dry and sizzling Last Line: Imagination's limits, how they fade... %even the dogs are sleeping in their pens. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Vacation; Vermont DOWN SUGAR LOAF BROOK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Walking with the water down sugar loaf brook Last Line: We can't keep up with it Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DREAM OF LOST CITIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A dream of cities Last Line: Waiting to be found Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DRINK OF WATER AT THE SPRING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He kneels before the never - failing spring Last Line: And just as sure to find again the source Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DRIVER, 1941 MODEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How long before cars reach the heights Last Line: And knew more than the car! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DRY SPELL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The summer pasture shrivels in the heat Last Line: The poor relations, blossom endlessly! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) 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) EDEN-STRANGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Things move and change and take on varying shapes Last Line: It's eden - strange Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EDUCATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His thoughts fall neatly into patterns now Last Line: Like toads and diamonds in a fairy tale Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) EMPTY NEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sedate the house and quiet now Last Line: I think that I could work Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ENGINEER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The small boy, intent, with pants rolled knee high Last Line: The creek went on talking. It would have the last %word Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) ENTREATY, by RENA BARNEY CULBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Ye crags and peaks Last Line: That sun and storm have lent! Subject(s): Mountains 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) ESCAPE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We saw a doe at friendly dusk Last Line: The soul a breathing space Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EVEN AS A DRAGON'S EYE THAT FEELS THE STRESS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While hearts and voices in the song unite Subject(s): Family Life; Mountains 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 AMONG THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the rocky cumberlands Last Line: Closes a summer day. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains EVENING IN THE GREAT SMOKIES, by DUBOSE HEYWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is their moment, when the brimming skies Subject(s): Great Smoky Mountains 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) EVERY TIME I ROLL UP TOWELS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Every time I put away towels Last Line: Or wilt lettuce, I remember Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 EVOLUTION OF SAND, by JEAN PAPE Poem Source First Line: There's something about the way Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) EXILE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How well he knew the geography of the land Last Line: Like ranks of firewood he had helped to stack Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EXPEDITION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The ants came marching in perfect order Last Line: They'll send another expedition tomorrow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EXPEDITIONS, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: My chauffeur lectured me Last Line: As mountains blurred beneath our feet. %we grieved for all that lay ahead Subject(s): Mountains; Travel EXPERIENCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I was young, I wrote of death Last Line: I wept, and could not say his name Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) FAR, FAR, THE MOUNTAIN PATH IS STEEP, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: The coming of the solitary crane Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism 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) FARM AUCTION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Just yesterday, they started keeping house Last Line: More than a farm, when they bid in his land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEBRUARY QUILT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Uneven days of winter never match Last Line: Here is my february quilt, a strange mismatch! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEBRUARY THAW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wind's voice strikes more gently on our ears Last Line: Who thought a february thaw was spring! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEEDING THE CHICKENS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sharp crayon colors illustrate the scene Last Line: The scene is always near, not years away Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEEDING THE GULLS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Winter gulls circle the deserted beach Last Line: They snatch it from the air Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FIGURE SHOULD SEEM TO BE CONTEMPLATING THE MOUNTAIN, by JIE ZI YUAN HUA ZHUAN Poem Source Last Line: Appears to be listening to the notes of the lute Subject(s): Mountains FIREWOOD (FOR STEVE SANFIELD), by DOC DACHTLER Poem Source First Line: We stacked each other Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains FIRST CROP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He looked upon that rocky place Last Line: The first crop is stones in anything new Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FIRST CROP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mustard green and water cress Last Line: Appeases ancient hungering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FIRST FLIGHT, by JANET CARNCROSS CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: Soft thud, startled screech Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains FIRST SNOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: On fields and pastures Last Line: Of the snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FISH WEATHER VANE - CLARYVILLE CHURCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The weather vane is shilly shallying today Last Line: And mackerel skies slow varying winds in motion Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 FLORIDA - ALIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to think that florida Last Line: And every ditch full of the soup of life Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLOWERING BASSWOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In summer forest tarrying Last Line: Is sweeter than the first Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLOWERS FOR JULIANA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew brought flowers from the pasture Last Line: Andrew always brought me flowers, she would say Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLYING OFF, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thoughts will not be tethered Last Line: In flight through thinning air Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR A GOOD COMPANION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We ate stone soup together Last Line: Alone is chill and bleak Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR CAROL, ON HER TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is the april hour before the sun Last Line: But now, I look at you, and it is spring Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR DANIEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sorry there's nothing in the nest Last Line: All I can find is a thin - shelled doubt Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR MARY, BORN IN TROUBLED TIMES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The nurse held out a snugly wrapped cocoon Last Line: May friendly stars reach down and comfort you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons FOREIGN LAND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: May poles - merry - go - rounds Last Line: Childhood is a foreign land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOREST PLANTATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These stubborn acres never liked the plow Last Line: We will restore its heritage of trees Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOREVER IN MY DREAM AND IN MY MORNING THOUGHT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He knows not when nor how Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains FORTH FROM A JUTTING RIDGE, AROUND WHOSE BASE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From age to age in blended memory Subject(s): Sisters; Mountains; Death FRESHET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The brook begins to leap and show its claws Last Line: The house cat is a tiger for an hour Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FRINGE BENEFITS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lib alone and like it if you choose Last Line: Fringe benefits attached are simply great! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROM A CITY DESK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy would bring the oxen in from work Last Line: The boy comes back, and he cannot forget Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROM AN OLD VISITORS' BOOK AT THE WASDALE HEAD FARM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of scawfell pike I clomt the height Last Line: Let he who wills go climb the hills, %but I'll stay in the valley Subject(s): Mountains 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 MY DIARY: OCTOBER DAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees have briefly come to bloom Last Line: Before they fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 FROM THE QUIET STREAM, by UNKNOWN+74 Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains FROST DOGS ARE RUNNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost dogs are running Last Line: And leave it black Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROST ON THE WINDOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost spider is weaving her fragile web Last Line: With the fabric of dreams and mystery Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FUGITIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I miss the little sound of leaves Last Line: Winter - weary mouse Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FULL MOON BRIMMING, by JEFF JONES Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains GATHERING OF SWALLOWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The gathering of swallows lasts for days Last Line: Then silence hovers and the birds are gone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GEESE STOPPING OVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A torrent of birds Last Line: Except for a few soft settling - down words Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GENERAL DELIVERY, by BEN L. HIATT Poem Source First Line: It's the same at all these small Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) GIFT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mark gave the boy the shell before he left Last Line: The old man knew he had eternity Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GIVING NOTICE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'm through with tending sacred cows Last Line: But give no milk Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GLEANERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Empty pods rattle on stiff brown vines Last Line: Field mice take what the pheasants scorn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GLORY HOLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Everyone should have a glory hole Last Line: Everyone should have a glory hole! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GOD MADE THE MOUNTAIN VERY HIGH, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Were very small things after all Subject(s): Mountains 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) GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: Don't go down the bank, my mother said Last Line: Then I'd wake, thinking - sweetness, sweetness Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Mountains 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) GRANNY'S HERB GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Caraway, rosemary, marjoram and sage Last Line: To keep and tend a garden so the blooms stand tall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GREAT SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Climbing one day, I reach the plateau Last Line: Makes an effort to break his bonds Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Knuckles and knobs and half - obscured scars Last Line: Love flows through her arms. She is ageless, content Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) GROWING OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I want to milk this old cow dry Last Line: Kicking and squalling Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HANDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They were farmer's hands - sturdy, competent Last Line: Lifting a small boy down from a load of hay Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) HAYING TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Small creatures meet the judgment day Last Line: And this small world is upside down Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEAD OF THE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Under his skin he wasn't brave at all Last Line: That no one guessed the lion was a mouse Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEART'S DAUGHTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You are my heart's daughter Last Line: You are my heart's daughter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) HEMLOCKS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The poetry of hemlocks is deep and green Last Line: The quiet aisles are sanctuary Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HERE COMES FEBRUARY!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here comes that old hag, february Last Line: When she'll be gone and leave march in her place Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HI AND WALTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: By his drawers, so itchy, roomy Last Line: Good companion like his hilda! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HIGH GROUND, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Today heidi & I hiked Last Line: Wet but with a good view Subject(s): Mountains; Parks 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 HIGHLAND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the white sierra %very fine snow %and wind in your face Last Line: We all are to see your face Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Nature; Spain; Travel HILL, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The hill is insufficiently tested chau d'eau Last Line: Not to turn around but to do a half-flip Subject(s): Mountains 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 HUNGER, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to stride the hills! My feet cry out Subject(s): Mountains HILL OF HUA-TZU, by PEI Poem Source First Line: The sun sets Last Line: The blue of the mountains, %touches my clothes Subject(s): Mountains HILL OF THE HATCHET-LEAVED BAMBOOS, by PEI Poem Source First Line: In the white moonlight the stream Last Line: I walk and sing, %my eyes on the familiar summits Subject(s): Mountains 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 BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Partner, remember the hills? Subject(s): Mountains 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 FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the complicated house came I Subject(s): Mountains 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, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Hills - / blue and green hills, near and far Last Line: But the beautiful far ones call for me Subject(s): Mountains 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) HILLSIDE FOSSILS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sea shells are bedded in the gray rock ledge Last Line: Their seal and symbol, and their sign and mark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) HILLTOP FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: South hill in summer sun, dusted with gold Last Line: Title reverts to the returning trees Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HIMALAYA, by WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: I stood upon a pinnacle of stone Last Line: I felt the majesty of nature wait. Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains) HIRED MAN AND THE MAGIC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After chores were done Last Line: Into his pocket the music went Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 COMING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: To the place of beginning, the old deed read Last Line: And look across the blue - green hills of home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) HOME!, by LU CICADA Poem Source First Line: April again hotly pursuing march Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains HOMELAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My adirondack mountain home Last Line: Where roots have struck down deep. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HOOVES OF TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: While I dream Last Line: The hooves of time are galloping Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HOUSE OF EARTH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Infinity and dandelions Last Line: I shall explore Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HOW THE MOUNTAINS TALK, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: One day to tupungato came a sound from far away Last Line: And, with a crash of breaking rocks, replied, 'the two %are one!' Subject(s): Hurricanes; Mountains HUA-TZU HILL, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: A dappled sunset, and the pine wind rises Last Line: What sadness my heart bears! Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism HUCKLEBERRYING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Let's go huckleberrying in the hilltop pasture Last Line: And spicy pink azalea and stiff hardhack Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) HUSON BURYING GROUND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This stony catskill field along the huson road Last Line: Some part of ireland's in this huson ground Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HUT MOUNTAIN, by TS'AN LIAO TZU Poem Source First Line: Tall pines squeeze the road Last Line: Outside the mountains %there is nothing so pure Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism 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) I BORROWED FIRE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In chill sad times Last Line: Where can I borrow fire? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I CALL THE HILL, by SUSU JEFFREY Poem Source First Line: An earth breast Last Line: The land is her own Subject(s): Landscape; Mountains; West (u.s.) I CARE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I mourn the passing of condor great blue whale panther Last Line: I care Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I HAVE HEARD THE CENTAUR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw the centaur leaping at the sky Last Line: And felt winds blow from pastures wild and blue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I HAVE SILVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have silver every day Last Line: Tap softly on my bedroom window Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I LIKE TO FIND A PUDDING STONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to find a pudding stone Last Line: As sure as change Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I LIKE WORDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like a gaudy word or two Last Line: And loving words that go unsaid Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I LOVE MOUNTAINS, by HO SHAO-CHI Poem Source First Line: This poet loves mountains like his own flesh and blood Last Line: While the green mountains stand eternally, looking compassionate Subject(s): Mountains I NEVER LEARN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My heart was hurt too often Last Line: Or reaching for the stars Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I THINK I'LL TAKE MY SON AND DAUGHTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I think I'll take my son and daughter Last Line: But best of all for naps, sundown! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I WANT TO ARRANGE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to arrange everything Last Line: And there still mountains, and from those mountains does the %wind still blow? Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains I WOULD LIKE, by UNKNOWN+74 Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains I'D LIKE TO TAKE LIFE BY THE THROAT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees exult with color Last Line: And fight and scream and claw Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ICARUS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When my wings grow long Last Line: Some day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ICE STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The shabby pasture, bedraggled and brown Last Line: The wind is the bull in the china shop! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IDES OF MARCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The morning bonfire of the sun Last Line: For life is waiting with a sharpened blade Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IDLE, I VISITED THE HIGH MONKS, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: Pool of lamplight beneath the moon Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism IDYL OF THE MOUNTAIN, by DEMETRIO FABREGA Poem Source First Line: Have you not seen two springs of pure water, among Last Line: Slowly yours will go on drawing nearer to mine! Subject(s): Mountains; Panama; Togetherness IF I COULD ONLY REMEMBER UNTIL MORNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The flights of thought insomnia brings Last Line: Seem dull and ordinary! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IF I HAD ONE I'D TRY IT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: If you really must sort all your diamonds some day Last Line: But a real one will squeak when it's touched with %dry ice! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) IF THAT BE YOUTH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Oh, I was young, and I was brave Last Line: That unawareness back Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN 1841 WASHOE CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1844, explorers john fremont and kit carson discovered lake tahoe Last Line: Found what was not lost Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Explorers; Native Americans IN A CLOUD RIFT, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon our loftiest white mountain peak Last Line: And heaven but earth raised into purer air. Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire 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 AMPEZZO, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only once more and not again - the larches Last Line: I pickled this little - in my hand that trembles - %parcel of columbines Subject(s): Alps; Mountains IN DECEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is no terror sharp as the start Last Line: Nothing but splendor in that bright tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN HELICON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In helicon, in helicon Last Line: Beware! Beware! Beware! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN MY OWN LANGUAGE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can't cut this timber Last Line: Only as I learn to speak it Subject(s): Language; Santa Cruz Mountains, California IN THE ADIRONDACKS, by LIONEL BASNEY Poem Source First Line: In the museum the life of the past Last Line: Still close enough to touch Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York 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 BRITISH MUSEUM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: At last I stood in wonder Last Line: He could not read the tablet either Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 GREEN CREEK SPRING WATER IS CLEAR, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: View all things as the void and this world is even more still Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism 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 MOUNTAINS, by JAMES THOMAS COTTON NOE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I met a little mountain boy Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton Subject(s): Mountains IN THE ORCHARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The orchard shade invites you to its depths Last Line: Purple of grape and honey - colored pear! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) IN THE SUN HERE, by SHELLY A. ALLEN Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All along the valley, stream that flashest white Last Line: The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Pyrenees (mountains), Europe IN THE VISITORS' BOOK AT MOUNT GRACE, NORTHALLERTON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye pilgrims to the mount called grace Last Line: When next you make a call this way, %consider this refrain Subject(s): Mountains IN TIME OF DROUGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thirsty earth Last Line: Roots stretch Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN WILD PLACES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Beauty always grows in wild, untended places Last Line: All you need for harvesting is a seeing heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 INFERNO,SELS: PART 2-THE MOUNTAIN, by GREGOR STRNISA Poem Source First Line: Its two peaks are never obscured by mists Last Line: The minotaur impales the others on its horns Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food And Eating; Hunger; Mountains INSOMNIA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the dark they come Last Line: I beg them to let me sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life INTERLUDE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Today there is no noisy flight of wind or birds Last Line: Crumpling pale hepaticas in each chubby fist Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) IRISH HILLS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I look unto mine own blue hills Last Line: And the lark chants at the gates of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mountains 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) JOAN OF ARC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Joan of arc spoke to me Last Line: To make me feel the flames Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JOHN CHAPMAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The apple gospel that he preached Last Line: They called him johnny appleseed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JONATHAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There was a small boy in a jonathan tree Last Line: The smell of the apple, tangy and crisp Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JUDEAN HILLS ARE HOLY, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Of jesus everywhere Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mountains JUNE 21 1990, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I wish I were in kotzebue Last Line: Forget the waiting permafrost Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) JUST IN CASE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Letters have upper and lower case Last Line: Can he solve the case of 'case'? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) KILLING THE ROOSTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The pullets were sleek and the cockerels Last Line: It is not easy to become a man Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) L'INGLESE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walpole, traveling in the alps Last Line: They, milord upon their backs Subject(s): Alps; Mountains 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 CRICKET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The cricket that survives the early frost Last Line: Beneath her dark inevitable wings Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) LAST GIFT, by LU CICADA Poem Source First Line: To fall away finally Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains LAST HARVEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is the last sweet harvest of the year Last Line: The gray sky thickens and I feel the threat of snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAST WILL & TESTAMENT NO. 1, by ROBYN MARTIN Poem Source First Line: When death comes over me Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains LATE SNOW IN THE SMOKIES, by ELIZABETH JONES BROWNING Poem Text First Line: Spring, one night Last Line: That palmer knew, and corot could not miss. Subject(s): Smoky Mountains; Snow; Spring LATE SNOW STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This storm that steps upon the heels of spring Last Line: Earth stirs and stretches from her winter bed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LATE WINTER SNOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These small sierras sawing at the sky Last Line: Let's hope spring cleaning comes when spring %commences! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAUGHTER WILL RISE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Some things endure. Be comforted Last Line: Some things endure Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) LAUTERBRUNNEN, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the hillside, where still their cottage Subject(s): Alps; Mountains LEAN YEAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thanks be for small and sour fruit Last Line: All creatures will be met Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LEAR'S ADVENTURES IN CRETE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape painter perceives the moufflons on the tops of the Last Line: Of the mountains of crete by sticking on to a moufflon's horns Subject(s): Mountains; Paintings And Painters 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 LETTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have sold the stars haver and charles scratched Last Line: Inside and out of the empty echoing house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LETTER FROM FLORIDA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is lotus land, ripe with the fruits of summer Last Line: Stone walls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LETTER TO JAIPUR, 1989, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to tell, rekha Last Line: Nineteen forty-four to fifty-five Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Letters LETTER TO JAIPUR, 1989, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to tell, rekha Last Line: Hills of the himalayas, %nineteen forty-four to fifty-five Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Letters 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) LINES WRITTEN IN THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man, an irish man, 'tis true Last Line: Is living in a treetrunk. Subject(s): Mountains; Virginia LITANY FOR SPARROW LYING IN THE PATH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No special services for you, bird Last Line: Did he turn his head? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LITTLE DAUGHTER, WASHING DISHES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Little daughter, washing dishes Last Line: Set no place for despair Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LITTLE PATHS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You come upon them unexpectedly Last Line: And follow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 LIVING AMONG TREES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Is different every day Last Line: In the bed by the door Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LIVING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LU QINGZI Poem Source First Line: Everywhere under the earth Last Line: The way to cinnabar hill Subject(s): Buddhism; Mountains LIVING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ZHANG YINYUAN Poem Source First Line: In the dense forest, birds' chirping sounds clear Last Line: At its windows, a flying waterfall hangs Subject(s): Mountains LOCAL BOY MISSING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He was not ready for the gift of sleep Last Line: And little winds whisper your requiem Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LOESS HILLS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: This hill I stand on is an egg of land Last Line: When the eye is always a stranger, longing for a lost land Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains; Nature LOOKING DOWN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountains of sorrow, I have heard your moans Last Line: Might here come forth to us with bread and wine Subject(s): Mountains; Vision LOST EDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Only the snake can take me there again Last Line: And innocence and the small snake were gone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) LOVE MADE VISIBLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Love shows itself in homely ways Last Line: Children tucked in their beds at night Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 MAKING ALLOWANCES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Bill eats our food and shares our roof Last Line: But with a common currency! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAKING APPLE BUTTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cinnamon and cider and crisp northern spies Last Line: But winter isn't here till we've made the apple butter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAKING BREAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My sisters watch me as I shape the loaf and Last Line: I feel my sisters watching, sharing, knowing Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAN WITH AN AXE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He hefts the axe and the axe hangs true Last Line: And built a house with his axe and his dreams Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) MANFRED; A DRAMATIC POEM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp must be replenished, but even then Last Line: He's gone, his soul hath taken its earthless flight; %whither? I dread to think; but he is gone Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Alps; Coliseum, Rome; Immortality; Mountains MAPLES IN WINTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Maples in winter have a listening look Last Line: With miracle of leaf Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MARCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I think that march is just a little boy Last Line: He goes to sleep upon the lap of spring Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MARCH OF THE CORDILLERAS, by RAUL ZURITA Poem Source First Line: And there the mountains began to move Last Line: Their lawless march Subject(s): Chile; Mountains MARIAN AT TASSAJARA SPRINGS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I remember your hair Last Line: To black ash and orange flame Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Romance MARIAN/'CHAMA' IN THREE MOUNTAIN RANGES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Now we separate %branching letting go of pine cone Last Line: I have grown old and snowblind Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Passion; Romance MARKING TIME, by TRENT BUSCH Poem Source First Line: In the bright hilltop Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains MASTER OF THE SITUATION, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Your bike's been taken Last Line: The mountainous weapon of its patience Subject(s): Accidents; Bicycles; Life; Mountains 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) MEMO: FOR A BEDSIDE READING TABLE, SCRIBBLED AT 2. A.M., by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Let others read to shudder and weep Last Line: Why did I start on a book like that? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MEMORIAL DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Do not sing blues here in this place Last Line: Flowers and tears should never last Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) MICRO / MACRO, by STEVE LAVINE Poem Source First Line: The quail go hyperspace Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) MIDSUMMER IN THE CATSKILLS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strident hum of sickle-bar Last Line: Swim in a sea of peace. Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Serenity; Summer MIGRATION, by HANNAH EKBERG Poem Source First Line: Every summer they bundled us Last Line: Thick and sure between our fingers Subject(s): Appalachia; Illinois; Migration; Mountains; Travel MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines & Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Last Line: On an old trail %all of a summer's day Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines And Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains MINING THE AMERICAN, by JON OLANDER Poem Source First Line: Up on the north fork Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains MIRACLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the bluegreen sealight of donegal Last Line: Are a soft miracle Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Mountains MIRAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ethereal mountain Subject(s): Mirages; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MIRAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ethereal mountain Last Line: Can one believe you are not a mirage Subject(s): Mirages; Mountains MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ON MOUNTAIN TRAVEL: 1, by CHAO CHIH-HSIN Poem Source First Line: Where the summit road twists and turns, I'm soon to lose my way Last Line: It's late in the year, the mountains are empty, and birds are %jabbering crazily Subject(s): Mountains MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ON MOUNTAIN TRAVEL: 2, by CHAO CHIH-HSIN Poem Source First Line: Evening clouds suddenly scatter and peaks come into view Last Line: A single lamp flickers and dims withing the lookout tower Subject(s): Mountains 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 MISERY IS THE YEAST -, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The ferment Last Line: I lack the proper background Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 MONOLITHS, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind lay upon me Last Line: Cleanly apart from time Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Mountains 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 REVISITED, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O mount beloved! Mine eyes again Subject(s): Alps; Mountains 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 MONT BREVENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dweller in the valley, lift thine eyes Last Line: Only a little way above thy pain. Subject(s): Mountains; Hope 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 MOONLIGHT: CHICKENS ON THE ROAD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Called out of dream by the pitch and screech Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Chickens; Grief; Ozarks (mountains); Sorrow; Sadness 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 EXERCISES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have no child or cat or bird Last Line: Insists on being walked Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) MOTHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Somehow I just can't think of you Last Line: And knows that heaven's richer for the sound Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MOTHER LODE SPRING, by NAN TOWNSEND DEGELMAN Poem Source First Line: There was snow curled in the lettuce Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 AGASSIZ, by WILLIAM WHITE Poem Source First Line: Around me stand the everlasting hills Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Mountains MOUNT AGIOCHOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray searcher of the upper air Last Line: Dwell the strange gods of heathendom! Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion; White Mountains, New Hampshire MOUNT JOY, by ALLISON FUNK Poem Source First Line: If we live uphill Last Line: Where we hear the baptists singing of heaven Subject(s): Happiness; Mountains MOUNT KAGU, by KAMO TARUHITO Poem Source First Line: The mists of spring %hang on mount kagu Last Line: Grew moss thick at their feet Subject(s): Mountains 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 SANTO TOMAS, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: These are the foothills Last Line: Later that day, rain fell Subject(s): Mountains 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, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a great snow Last Line: Love all knowledge high- %est hope mortal desire! Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Mountain Climbing MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only on the rarest occasions, when the blue air Last Line: That way, as is said of certain hill creatures Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Fanatics And Fanaticism; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Volcanoes MOUNTAIN, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: There are no mountains here Last Line: Anyone who wants mountains %will have to build them in his soul Subject(s): Mountains MOUNTAIN AFTERGLOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afterglow goldens the Last Line: Night and night clouds %fold dark on the stars Subject(s): Wasatch Mountains, Utah 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 AND RIVER, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Source First Line: It is not the mountains that tower Subject(s): Mountains MOUNTAIN CHAPEL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chapel and gravestones, old and few Last Line: This wind was old Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Mountains; Wales MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neath an uncertain moon, in light malign Subject(s): Alps; Mountains MOUNTAIN DWELLING, by CH'ING KUNG Poem Source First Line: Things of the past are already long gone Last Line: Plum blossoms fallen; gardenia just opening Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN FACING A MOUNTAIN (1), by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is holding onto a ledge Last Line: Its own virtue, its own separateness Subject(s): Greece; Mountains MOUNTAIN IN A STORM, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER Poem Source First Line: The sky is angry Subject(s): Mountains; Storms MOUNTAIN IN THE SKY, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Source First Line: Was it the wind they followed? Subject(s): Mountains 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 LIVING: 1, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Down beneath the pines Last Line: Idly comes and goes Subject(s): Mountains; Valleys; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN LIVING: 14, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Like some pure clarity Last Line: Becomes a bright pearl Subject(s): Mountains; Valleys; Zen Buddhism 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 POEM, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: He glides over snow %shifting weight Last Line: Breathes mountain air %'see that dad?' Subject(s): Mountains MOUNTAIN SONG, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not where to lay my head Subject(s): Mountains MOUNTAIN SONNETS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here let me pause by the lone eagle's nest Last Line: To flush and thrill the visionary heart! Subject(s): Blue Ridge Mountains 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 SPEED, by GEOFFREY WINTHROP YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Oh, the winter joy of the flying of feet over snow-clad hill Subject(s): Mountains MOUNTAIN TOP, by KAKINOMOTO HITOMARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because the plum trees on the peak Alternate Author Name(s): Workman; Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaru Subject(s): Mountains 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, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: He came from hills to comfortable plains Subject(s): Mountains 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, by NATASHA SAJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before, when I lived in the mountains Last Line: I will inhale that wish like oxygen Subject(s): Mountains MOUNTAINS GROW UNNOTICED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For fellowship at night Variant Title(s): Poem: 757; Poem: 76 Subject(s): Mountains 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) MOUNTAINS KNOW, by CONCHA MELENDEZ Poem Source First Line: I love my country's lofty mountains! Last Line: The mountains lofty and unmoved! Subject(s): Latin America - History; Mountains; Travel MOUNTAINS OF THE SOUL, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: Hewn out of the azure, Last Line: Brighter than day Subject(s): Mountains MOVING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew and juliana moved seven times Last Line: To a florida flower bed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 FATHER'S GHOST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My father's ghost would never hang around the house Last Line: Come to me in living, my whole life long! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MY HEART UNFOLDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My heart unfolds with every leaf Last Line: My heart unfolds with every leaf Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 MOUNTAINS, by JOAQUIN GOMEZ VERGARA Poem Source First Line: I am far from my country Last Line: O my beautiful mountains! Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration 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) MYRRH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Christmas is laughter, tinsel, light Last Line: A dream of peace we follow still Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MYSTERY OF CHRISTMAS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The mystery of christmas fills the house Last Line: It's built upon a birthday and a dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo Last Line: Tribal drum, and the rockhead of taos mountain, remember that civilization is a transient sickness Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists NEW YEAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Past slanting pastures new with snow Last Line: Can make it last! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NIGHT, by UNKNOWN+74 Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains NIGHT CHILD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The night child lifts himself from sleep Last Line: Dark safely wraps the night - struck child Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NIGHT IN THE OZARKS, by OPAL HARDAWAY Poem Text First Line: Night, when you lay black velvet paws Last Line: In man, in work, in lowly sod. Subject(s): Night; Ozarks (mountains); Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS, SIERRA, by WILLIAM HOWARTH Poem Source First Line: Air of thin blue shadow. My campfire shivers Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains NO CEREMONY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Being forgotten is another kind of dying Last Line: No mourners left Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO GLACIER PUSHED ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I sat down near a quartz - filled pudding stone Last Line: At rest upon this catskill hilltop farm? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO SILVER SWATH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This snail shell is an empty hall Last Line: I mark my kinship with the snail Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO STONE TO HEFT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The black earth welcomes the exploding seed Last Line: Today I have no stone to heft and tote Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO STRANGE FLOWERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Tottering a little on unsteady feet Last Line: In normandy Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO WORDS ARE BORN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Beyond the parapets of outer space Last Line: Lucid enough to tell the tale to me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) NORTHBOUND CROWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I know it is spring when I hear them talk Last Line: The flight to the north is cluttered and loud Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NOT SO LONG GONE (FOR THE MAIDU), by DOC DACHTLER Poem Source First Line: Down by the windmill Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains NOTE TO BE SEALED IN A BOTTLE:, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am a star - flung castaway Last Line: And offer me the great voyage home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NOTES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From my window %baeza meadows %in the bright moon! Last Line: From the dog days Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Mountains; Spain NOVEMBER DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This tattered day is a hand - me - down Last Line: As winter sweeps in with ermine and pearls! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life O SPRUCE PINES ON THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spruce pines on the cumberlands Last Line: Upon the cumberland. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Spruce Trees OCTOBER AGAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: October again Last Line: Is harder to bear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OCTOBER IN APPALACHIO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The last katydid knocks its tambourine Last Line: The stars press our bones into what black seam? Subject(s): Appalachia; Mountains; Stones OCTOBER RICHES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I love the helterskelter untidiness of leaves Last Line: I am a gold leaf millionaire Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OCTOBER: SIERRA, by WILLIAM HOWARTH Poem Source First Line: The air is blue enough to scratch Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains ODE ON THE HILLS OF GEORGIA, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night over georgia; mist across the heights Last Line: Being powerless to live in loveliness Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Georgia (republic); Mountains ODE TO A NUCLEAR FRIEZE, by NAN TOWNSEND DEGELMAN Poem Source First Line: On a last late sunday in october Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 FARM ALONG NEW HIGHWAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A roadside barn stands shivering Last Line: Watches with empty eyes Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This old house wears a patina of dignity Last Line: And will again. This old house is a home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD HOUSE AT CHRISTMAS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Christmas comes easily to this old house Last Line: With all the love its wooden arms can hold! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD LAKE AGASSIZ, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: We knew this valley was an ice-age lake Last Line: With small whirlpools of milky light Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Lakes; Mountains; Travel; Valleys OLD MAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His spindly legs and arms still work Last Line: And waits to join him when he comes Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 ORCHARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A drift of baldwins, bright as maple leaves Last Line: For fruit and flower he shall never see? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD RED HEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In her good brown dress and bright red comb Last Line: Is her last little feathery goodnight word Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the hour of the dew Last Line: It is the virgin of the peaks Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Roads; Spain; Travel 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 CLIFF ABOVE SEAL ROCKS, by DAVID YEZZI Poem Source First Line: Behind us the city, the ocean below us Last Line: Low and quotidian, difficult; difficult, low Subject(s): Mountains 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 HILL, by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring on a windswept hill! Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature 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 A YANKEE HILL MORNING, by STEVE LAVINE Poem Source First Line: Barely smoking oak embers Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains ON AUSTRALIAN HILLS, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, outward turning on her path in space Last Line: But trust the guidance of the one who knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Australia; Mountains 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 CLINGMAN DOME, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The balsom buds are bluer Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Great Smoky Mountains 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 FINDING AN ARROWHEAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Who left this mark upon my measured field? Last Line: And wonder if I really own this land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 LONG BOAT KEY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This key rides water like a narrow raft Last Line: Others will follow whose days have just begun Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON LOOKING AT A CONTOUR MAP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Under the light the map begins to live Last Line: To childhood country with my youth restored Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 STUDYING SEATED MAN WITH A HARP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: All the singing before homer is lost Last Line: I try to hear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 HEIGHTS, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the needs of manhood satisfied! Subject(s): Mountains 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 HILLS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks the clouds had raked the hills Last Line: Beyond the wall of mountains! Subject(s): Ossipee (lake), New Hampshire; White Mountains, New Hampshire ON THE LOSS OF THE PRIVATEER BRIGANTINE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The armstrong arrived in the port of fayal Last Line: May it ever be ready, the britons to maul, %as the armstrong behaved in the road of fayal Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812 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) ON THUNDER HILL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The folks who live on thunder hill Last Line: Lightning can't strike the same place twice! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) ONE THAT GOT AWAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It is of you I dream through drowsy winter nights Last Line: Come streaking from its depths to fin your nose at me! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ONE-YEAR-OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He laughs and claps those dimpled hands Last Line: Came here to stay! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ORACLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Now I am the old one, dispensing wisdom Last Line: I forget ... I forget ... I try to forget Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ORANGE BLOSSOMS AND SIERRA NIGHT, by SAMUEL ALEXANDER WHITE Poem Text First Line: Sweet scent of blossoms, through the canyons wide Last Line: I walk with still, in orange blossom scent. Subject(s): Night; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Bedtime ORPHAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Milk - white with nacre hooves and horn Last Line: To see the last white unicorn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OUR HERITAGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is our due and this our heritage Last Line: We cannot spare one bird song from the field! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 LOSSES HAVE BEEN SLIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No one will miss him very much Last Line: No one will miss him very much Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OUR MOUNTAIN, by PEDRO PRADO Poem Source First Line: We who dwell in these deep valleys Last Line: The calm grandeur of the gift Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Valleys 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) OUT HERE, by ROBERT HARLOW Poem Source First Line: Driving through the mountains Last Line: Bits of blue that were my coat %no longer keeping me warm Subject(s): Mountains OUT OF THE FIREFLY NIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Soft and dark after the warm rain Last Line: I grew all night like the new corn in the hills Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) OX-EYE DAISY, by LOIS BUNSE Poem Source First Line: The hill narrates in flower Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains OZARKS PICTURESQUE, by DORIS ELIZABETH KROETER Poem Text First Line: Purpling hills, with silver mist enshrining Last Line: Thanking god that beauty fills his soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Ozarks (mountains) PACKET OF SEED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This wrinkled seed I hold in my hand Last Line: By the soundless shout of the bursting seed! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PARTINGS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: With house and home went title to the tree Last Line: That went into the growing of the tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) PATTERN FOR THE FUTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I see a neat and tidy world Last Line: With choice phased out, and love outlawed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PEELING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There was no song for that brown chore Last Line: It seemed a privilege for a while Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PELION AND OSSA FLOURISH SIDE BY SIDE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And pours forth streams more sweet than castaly Subject(s): Mountains PEOPLE ASK THE WAY TO COLD MOUNTAIN, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You'd return to the very center Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism PERSPECTIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I had lost myself in woe Last Line: My grief was an important thing Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 PICKING WILD BLACKBERRIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No one but a bear should pick wild blackberries Last Line: He shambled off in lumbering retreat Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) PLACE FOR A BOY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A field is a place for a small boy to play Last Line: A field is a place for a small boy to grow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PLANTING PURPLE POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not with prayers and incantations Last Line: This is my journey to peru Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PLAYGROUND INCIDENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The eagle soared above the playground with Last Line: Great wings were there Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) POET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The poet doesn't live on love or roses Last Line: Green words will always ripen in his mouth Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 POND & STREAM, by ANGELA KARSZO Poem Source First Line: You throw yourself in - Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains POOR OLD WOMAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A spate of sorrow drowned her - Last Line: A spate of sorrow drowned her Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PORTRAIT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He walks along, unnoticing, with spring Last Line: And climb, unmoved, a parapet of stars Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) POSTSCRIPT TO A SNOW DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You asked me what on earth I did Last Line: To make a proper list! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: One potato Last Line: Three potato %four! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POWER OF SNOW, by STEVE SANFIELD Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains PRAISE BE FOR MUD!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Praise be for mud when the frost goes out Last Line: Praise be for mud! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) PREPARING FOR WINTER, by STEVE SANFIELD Poem Source First Line: Despite the storm it's dry again Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blacken thy heavens, jove Last Line: As I! Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cover thy spacious heavens, zeus Last Line: As I! Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One after one the stars have risen and set Last Line: And patience, which at last shall overcome. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians 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) PROSPECTOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Nuggets of wisdom, I've been told Last Line: I'm off to the mountains with grubstake and mule Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PSALM 83; A LAMENT, by PRESTON MERCHANT Poem Source First Line: Speak. They have dug a well below the mountain Last Line: When it falls toward you and your image %is cracked cold, unrecognizable Subject(s): Mountains PUNICA: HANNIBAL'S PASSAGE OF THE ALPS, by TIBERIUS CATIUS ASCONIUS SILIUS ITALICUS Poem Source First Line: But now, the o'erhanging alps ... Near Subject(s): Alps; Hannibal (247-183 B.c.); Mountains; Punic Wars (carthage And Rome) PURPLE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late afternoon; see what I can see Last Line: These boundaries were always Subject(s): California; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel QUALITY OF LIFE, by STEVE SANFIELD Poem Source First Line: A load of apples going out Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) QUESTION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Spirit, body Last Line: Become of %me? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RADHA TO RAM LILA, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Still in the moonlight gleam himalayan snows Last Line: And till a tongue of ashes speaks again. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Himalayas (mountains); Dead, The; Burials RAINBOW OF A DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sunday was a day to savor and remember Last Line: I wonder if we'll see again such a rainbow of a day? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RECEIPT FOR BLACKBERRY PIE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Take juicy blackberries, sweet with august sun Last Line: And there is more than a receipt to learn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RECLUSE ON ORPHAN MOUNTAIN, by LIN HO-CHING Poem Source First Line: Until deep into mountain and river Last Line: Log for a bridge - %I'll build a little hut Subject(s): Mountains; Zen Buddhism RED CANOE, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: Now that he had grown older lame and stiff Last Line: I have tumbled down and down toward that blue distance %if nothing can hold me on the mountain it wi Subject(s): Mountains; Sea RED EAGLE - THE MOUNTAIN WITH WINGS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Mountains RED FOX, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The red fox sits alone upon a rock Last Line: Title returns to him when it grows dark! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RED HILLS '83., by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE Poem Source First Line: Crimsonflames %swooped the rolls Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) RELAY AT EVENING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The dogs send signals in the hollow dusk Last Line: Strange and deep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life REPORTER AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I must record important happenings Last Line: I wonder what the scale will be Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) RICHARD RECITES THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Four score and seven years... The boy's head Last Line: And the tall gaunt man with the bowed head Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RIDING UP THE TANANA RIVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw the mountains moving to the sea - Last Line: And too thick to drink Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) ROAD TO TRES PIEDRAS, by LEO ROMERO Poem Source First Line: What a lone lonely %road Last Line: On a remote horizon Subject(s): Mountains ROCK ART PRAYER, by RON PICKUP Poem Source First Line: Bathed icons of Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains ROCKBOUND PASS IN JANUARY, by JON OLANDER Poem Source First Line: Cutting foot holds Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER AEGINA, GREECE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many the feet that filled Last Line: And you have perished! Subject(s): Abandonment; Greece; Mountains; Ruins RUNAWAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Caraway and tansy, catnip and fever few Last Line: Growing in a garden with herbs and marigold Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RUTLI, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the lake's left bank Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Mountains 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 SAILOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His thoughts are like a brook that always runs Last Line: When tides are always pulling at his heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) SAME DOOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I see you in this scattered company Last Line: It is small comfort to me that you are not alone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAN RAFAEL MOUNTAIN, by PAUL WILLIS Poem Source First Line: It takes a while for the country to settle Last Line: As we are known Subject(s): Mountains; Nature SAVING OF THE LEAVES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Old leaves are precious Last Line: Behind the rake Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAYING GRACE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My father bowed his head and waited, still Last Line: Thanksgiving was my father, saying grace Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SCHOOL DROP-OUTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You see them standing on street corners Last Line: Without care Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SCORPION SUMMER, by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE Poem Source First Line: The trees on the november hillsides Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SEA SHELL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It took a pell mell storm Last Line: What sculptor carved this curving carapace? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SECRETS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Some secrets of the winter woods Last Line: To those who see - and want to know Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SEPTEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fox grapes hang purple on the hillside vines Last Line: This is the rich fulfillment of a dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SEQUOIA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This tree was ancient when the fishermen Last Line: Upon earth's oldest living monument Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SERMONS THERE ARE, MUST BE A MILLION, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: Your view will be blocked %by the others Subject(s): Mountains; Temples; Zen Buddhism 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) SHARING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My flower bed grows more than weeds and Last Line: I thought I lived here all alone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SIDNEY LANIER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He was aware of unheard symphonies Last Line: He writes the lyric for some deathless score Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SIERRA GRANDE DEL NORTE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like fragments of an uncompleted world Last Line: A line of battle-tents in everlasting snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): By The Sun-down Seas;the Sierras Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SIERRA KID, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I passed slimgullion, morgan mine, Subject(s): Explorers; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SIERRA NEVADA IN MARCH, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: What an ugly month. Nothing live Subject(s): March (month); Sierra Nevada Mountains SIERRA SONG, by STEVE SANFIELD Poem Source First Line: Here in the foothills Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SIERRA TRAIL DUST, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Orchid-like, gold mimulus cling Last Line: With crystal dust and powdered clay. Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) SINCE NINEVEH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The levelled cities sowed with salt Last Line: And hear again the ancient, why? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SITTING ALONE IN CHING-T'ING MOUNTAIN, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flocks of birds fly high and vanish Last Line: Only the ching-t'ing mountain and me Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Mountains SKETCH, by YI HYONGGI Poem Source First Line: Each time I visit the mountains Last Line: Hiding somewhere in the bushes for any chance Subject(s): Mountains SKUNK, by WILL STAPLE Poem Source First Line: I wish I could cage her Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun Last Line: And winter pulled a sheet over his head Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry And Poets SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Words chase each other through my mind Last Line: Then I get back to sleep again Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SLIGHT DROPS IN LEDGE POOLS, by JEFF JONES Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SMALL BOY SLEEPING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is a breathless moment in the night Last Line: For boys who sleep unguarded in the dark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SMALL WAR, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: They brought anti-tank mines, useless Last Line: All emblematic, immemorial Subject(s): Death - Children; Fights; Pyrenees (mountains), Europe; War SMOKE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The smokehouse smelled of hickory chips Last Line: The smokehouse flavor, fresh upon his tongue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) SNOWFLOWER, by TAMARA DOWNING Poem Source First Line: Come, daniel I will show you where Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 SOMETIMES BEES SPEND THE NIGHT AWAY FROM HOME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes bees spend the night away from home Last Line: To the hidden home hive? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SONG FOR MY BIRTHDAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am older now Last Line: Or the snow a sheltering wing? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 OF ENVY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the chilly landscape goes the fat and drowsy bear Last Line: No income tax, no ration books, no war communiques! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 LUCERNE, SELS., by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Mountains SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 57, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain ways one summer Last Line: Cold cheek to cheek at last! Subject(s): Mountains; Trees 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, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sashay with shakespeare. Scribblers can cavort Last Line: Your words are fresh with an immortal dew Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SONNET, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand upon the mountains, 'mid a sea Last Line: My pinions lift me on to heaven's own world of light. Subject(s): Mountains 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) SONORA FOOTHILL WINTER RAINSTORM, by DAVID KUEHNERT Poem Source First Line: Rain dropping heavily Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SORRY, by DOC DACHTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SOUND OF THE WIND IN THE PINES AN AFTERNOON AND NIGHT ..., by HSU YUN Poem Source First Line: Courtyard-covering white dew Last Line: Preaching 'no birth' Subject(s): Monks; Mountains; Preaching And Preachers; Zen Buddhism SOURCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What tick and tock? Last Line: Brave scientist! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT; FOR KENNETH REXROTH, by PHILIP WHALEN Poem Source First Line: I always say I won't go back to the mountains Last Line: Like they say, 'four times up, %three times down.' I'm still on the mountain Subject(s): Meditation; Mountains SOUTHERN ALPS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the roofs at break of day Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Alps; Mountains SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 12, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I come on a visit Last Line: Seems to go up Subject(s): Mountains; Travel SPENDING THE WOODPILE WELL INTO JUNE, by JEAN PAPE Poem Source First Line: The oaks are casting off Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SPINNER OF FROST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost spider, spinning a silvery web Last Line: Frost cannot hold flame Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SPIRIT OF THE SMOKIES, by MABELLE RUTHERFORD MURDOCK Poem Text First Line: Slowly drifting from the campfires Last Line: Benediction to our prayer. Subject(s): Smoky Mountains SPIRIT OF THE WOOD, by PAUL BAUDIN Poem Source First Line: Deep in the silence of the forest Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SPLITTING CEDAR, by MIKE DIXON Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SPLITTING FIREWOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wood was tough: his stance was wide Last Line: The years stack up like a rank of wood Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SPRING CLEANING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Roll up the snow fence, winter - staggered Last Line: To strut and hop and flutter! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) SPRING NIGHT AT BAMBOO PAVILLION, PRESENTING A POEM ..., by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Night is quiet. All creatures are resting Last Line: You prefer picking ferns in this unknown place Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Mountains 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) STAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The fragrance of the pine is myrrh Last Line: The steadfast christmas star has shone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STEALING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My mother taught me how to steal potatoes Last Line: Then feast Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STONES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The young man walked in stones and stubble Last Line: He shares a field with them today Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STOPPING AT THE STATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The train made a ceremony of arrival Last Line: And a quiet huff huff puff puff puff puff Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 KING (MOUNTAIN-PEAK IN THE OLYMPICS), by MARGARET LENORE PARTON Poem Text First Line: Soft glow of summer sun Last Line: Storm king, you hold your throne! Subject(s): Olympic (mountains), Washington 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) STOVE WOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The sugar maples herd within the grove Last Line: I still have tears to mourn the dryad's fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STRANGER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I almost hate her - this stranger Last Line: Stranger in my house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STRATUM I: PETRARCH, by THOMAS KLING Poem Source First Line: The peak ahead, the slope behind me Last Line: By noon, thin air. Then distance Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountains STRAY CAT NAMED MEECH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When he came to us out of the wet woods Last Line: In the woods Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 OF THE HILLS, by LULU W. MITCHELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will lift up my eyes to the hills Subject(s): Mountains 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) STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming back over the col between Last Line: Standing sentry for the avalanche Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Alone all day Last Line: I have shaken hands with lightning Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 SUDDEN RAIN IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, by STEPHEN BURT Poem Source First Line: Plush hills, the raw materials, fall away Last Line: I'm not with you. I will be with you soon Subject(s): Absence; Mountains; Rain SUMMER HILLS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I will go back to the summer hills Last Line: The young, glad days, when we walked together Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SUN BATHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She never heard of helios or ra Last Line: As the sun god laid his hand upon her back Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SUNRISE ON THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chimney rocks are huge chimney Last Line: We had in getting there. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Dawn; Sunrise SUNRISE OVER THE SIERRAS, by HENRY MEADE BLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me how one day-break long ago Last Line: And saw jehovah in the rising flame! Subject(s): Dawn; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Sunrise 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 CRYSTAL LAKE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The sunset streams across the lake Last Line: Water and sky grow dark together Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SUNSET ON THE CUMBERLAND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the 'chimneys' yesterday Last Line: That sunset scene admiring. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Evening; Sunset; Twilight 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) SURENEN PASS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the surenen's fearful mountain pass Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Mountains 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) SWEET MOUNTAINS - YE TELL ME NO LIE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To lift her brows on you Variant Title(s): Poem: 722; Poem: 74 Subject(s): Mountains SWEET SMELL OF CEDAR SUCKED OUT MY BREATH, by UNKNOWN+74 Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains SWIMMING, by ELAINE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Swimming just below the surface Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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) TAHOE, by FERNANDO ALEGRIA Poem Source First Line: Lake of fire open in the mountain Last Line: You glide in like a sailboat undetected, %unloading on my dock created being Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains TAHOE IN AUGUST, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women TAHOE IN AUGUST, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness Last Line: The mother she looks like stands at the counter snapping beans Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women 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) TANKA: WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING, by WAKAYAMA BOKUSUI Poem Source First Line: Mountaintop: as far as I can see Subject(s): Mountains TAOS MOUNTAIN, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain is there when you walk to safeway Last Line: Watering their ponies in blue lake creek, %adding adobe rooms through the thousand years Subject(s): Mountains TAPPING THE SAP BUSH - 1918, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not spring, and not winter either Last Line: But sapping time Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TEACHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here is a man whose hand has pointed out Last Line: For love of life and living and for laughter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TEACHER REMEMBERED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Her thoughts were never folded in a book Last Line: And see her face on every turning page Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TEJUNGA VALLEY IN JUNE, by BESSIE PRYOR PALMER Poem Text First Line: Stand with me, nanette Last Line: Sense but the sweetnessof the thing called life! Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TELL AND HIS SON AT ALTDORF, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a charm about them - that's ... Truth Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Mountains TELL OF ALTORF, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks no crown he needed Subject(s): Alps; Mountains 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) THANKSGIVING HYMN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A scarlet thread of wonder Last Line: Runs through the woof of days Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THAT HILL IS TOO HIGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Hill: my hate Subject(s): Mountains THAT WAS A CHRISTMAS!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The lean years were the best years, looking back - Last Line: That was a christmas to warm me all my life! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THE ADIRONDACS; A JOURNAL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We crossed champlain to keeseville with our friends Last Line: As if one riddle of the sphinx were guessed. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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 lifeuntrusted 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 BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had been wandering for many days Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song. Variant Title(s): The White Mountains Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE BROKEN PROMISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the crisp of fall Last Line: And a broken promise is their doom. Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares; Human Race; Bedtime 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 CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave Last Line: And dolphins gambol in the lion's den! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians 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 DISTANT MOUNTAIN-RANGE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They beckon from their sunset domes afar Last Line: Dreams of a glory deeper than he sees. Subject(s): Blue Mountains, Maine 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 FAIREST, BRIGHTEST, HUES OF ETHER FADE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of harmony, above all earthly care Subject(s): Peace; Mountains 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 FOUNTAINS OF ASHOKAN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henceforth what dream can e'er efface Last Line: Would quaff new beauty in the glass! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE FRONTIER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the glorious purple line Last Line: Greeting the purple carpathians! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The Carpathians Subject(s): Carpathian Mountains, Hungary 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 GREEN MOUNTAINS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye mountains, that far off lift up your heads Last Line: O brother-heart, with thee my spirit warms! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 9 Subject(s): Green Mountains, Vermont 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 ARE TIPPED WITH SUNSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mountains; Walking; Nature; Weariness 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 HIMALAYAS BY NIGHT, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: My pathway seems the hem of very night Last Line: The gleaming titans naked neath the moon! Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains) 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 MAY SEEM VERY HIGH, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: In my small picture reading book Subject(s): Mountains; Pictures 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 SAT UPON THE PLAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of dawn, the ancestor Subject(s): Mountains 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 OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN; PROFILE NOTCH, FRANCONIA, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All round the lake the wet woods shake Last Line: Imaginary brief existence! Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire 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 PASS OF THE SIERRA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night above their rocky bed Last Line: And lead in freedom's van! Subject(s): Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Sierra Nevada Mountains; Slavery; Serfs 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 PRESENCE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain statelier lifts his blue-veiled head Last Line: "truth's simplest message: ""'t is by love ye live." Subject(s): Blue Mountains, Maine 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 SKY LOVES THE TALL HILLS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: With coverlet of blue Subject(s): Mountains 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 TRUMPETS OF DOOLKARNEIN, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With awful walls, for glooming, that possessed Last Line: But heaven and earth abide their time, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians 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 VOICE AND THE PEAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Green-rushing from the rosy thrones of dawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mountains 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 THEODORIC, SELS., by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alps; Mountains THERE IS ROOM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Ironwood and whistlewood Last Line: There is room Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF THE HILLS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That persistent old man of the hills Subject(s): Mountains; Old Age 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 THINKING OF EAST MOUNTAIN, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's been so long since I headed for east mountain Last Line: And this bright moon - whose house is it setting on? Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Mountains THIS GAME WE PLAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They shared a house, a table and a bed Last Line: She wept to hear his faint voice cry, home! Free! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THIS IS THE DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fiddleheads are crisp and green in the lower Last Line: Splashes white! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 THREE HILLS, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three hills that stood alone Last Line: And earth shall eat the stones, and we %shall be alone again Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Mountains THREE-YEAR-OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A three - year - old walks Last Line: Let me see, too! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THROUGH ALPINE GATES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, sweet it was, when, from that bleak abode Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Alps; Mountains THROUGH KITCHEN WINDOWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Through kitchen windows we can see Last Line: At fruitful earth, and earth laid bare Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Time has us all in his pocket Last Line: We measured out Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TO A FLOWER ON THE SKIRTS OF MONT BLANC, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With heart not yet half rested ... Mont blanc Subject(s): Alps; Mountains 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 A SPRING IN THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gurgling spring in sylvan beauty Last Line: You will ever here abide. Subject(s): Beauty; Cumberland Mountains; Springs (water) TO GRANDFATHER, by UNKNOWN+74 Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains TO GUIDE YOU, HE IS, by DAVID KUEHNERT Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains 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 MONTEAGLE, by HARRY HARRISON KROLL Poem Text First Line: A nearly empty highway Last Line: And I am again come to monteagle. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Monteagle, Tennessee 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 CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cumberland! O cumberland! Last Line: Of my childhood's happy hours. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Love 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) TO WALK ON HILLS IS TO EMPLOY LEGS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mountains TOAST TO A FUTURE DAY, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I have climbed to the highest point of the mountain Last Line: Ringed with the seven-colored rainbow Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Toasts; Water TOO OLD TO TRANSPLANT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mark left the hills for unaccustomed streets Last Line: Whose tap root withers, and green branches die Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring; Fall TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Last Line: And links the roll of a planet alike with the interests %of marmots and men' Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring 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. INDIA, THE WISDOM-LAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here also in india - wonderful, hidden - over thousands of miles Last Line: The precious semen of democracy. Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); India; Jungles; Nations; Nature 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, dancetill the mountains too wheel round us. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tanzbodeli (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TOWER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I have come again Last Line: O king live forever.' Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Mountains; Stones TRACES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What trace of me marks hills Last Line: As the trackless wind Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRANSPLANTED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Katrina thought she could forget Last Line: And branch of her adopted land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRAPPING SEASON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It's open season and I kneel before the yawning hole Last Line: So gather around! As usual, the treat is on the house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRAVELING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I wrap myself in morning mist Last Line: With no two days the same Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TROUT POOL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Feathers and ferns of light Last Line: Swim in dark water Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRUST ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lies are mean and sharp Last Line: You can trust me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TURN TO GO, by WILLIAM HOWARTH Poem Source First Line: A million summers before los angeles came Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains TURTLE CROSSING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is no hurry in his legs Last Line: And draws back in his sculptured shell Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 RONDOUT RESERVOIR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Water holds no tracks Last Line: They travel now Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 UNINVITED GUEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Clothed in his full dress suit of black and white Last Line: So hold your nose! We came out second best Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) UNTILLABLE HILLS, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: A small, silent, bearded man Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains 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 MOONHAW ROAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Up moonhaw road the maples burn Last Line: The unbelievable was there Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) UTE MOUNTAIN, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am gone' Last Line: Thus men make a mountain Subject(s): Mountains VALENTINE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Carved with a pen knife on a gray beech bole Last Line: Inconstant love upon the constant tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) VALUE IN MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are those to whom value is a weapon Last Line: And the unique %note %of the stricken Subject(s): Mountains VALUE IN MOUNTAINS: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now surprised by lunar mountain avatars Last Line: And green over them the nova grows above the grass Subject(s): Mountains; Woods 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) VILLAGE LIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Across the valley strange with dusk Last Line: And far and bleak the moon and mars! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) VISION OF MONT BLANC, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dying at last of these splendors away Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Alps; Mountains VISIT TO THE SOUTH MOUNTAINS, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: The south mountains block up earth and sky Last Line: Reaching this place I repent my learning, %each dawn drawn nearer to groundless renown Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains VISITING DAMARIS AT THE INFIRMARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After a lifetime filled with books Last Line: For me to kiss when it is time for me to go Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life VISITING THE TEMPLE OF MOUNT HENG, THEN SPENDING THE NIGHT, by HAN YU Poem Source First Line: The ritual ranks of the five great peaks Last Line: Till, gradually growing, the wintry sun %appeared off in the east Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Buddhism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Temples VISITORS TO THE WATERFALL, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: They see the rowan-trees above the fall Subject(s): Mountains WALK IN THE FOG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Familiar woods are strange with fog Last Line: And woods are sensible with light Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WALK IN THE FOG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to walk with Last Line: Bluejay and crow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WALKER ON THE BEACH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out on the beach the lonely figure walks Last Line: And has the secret knowledge none may share Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WANDERING TO THE TIAN-TAI MOUNTAINS, by SUN CHO Poem Source First Line: Utter void, hollow magnitudes, lacking all limit Last Line: I blur the thousands of images by dark observation, %my body, insensate, identical with what is natu Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Mountains 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 WARNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Keep away from mirrors Last Line: Is an old woman's face Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WARNING 1957, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Unleash the fires within the earth Last Line: Breathe life back into lifeless clay Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WARNING TO WHODUNIT FANS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Text First Line: You like your murders gory when they're safely in a story Last Line: When you awake and find yourself with a murder on your hand! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers 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 WATCHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I live alone above the lake Last Line: Watching %watching? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) WE BOUGHT A FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We bought a farm - but we bought more than land Last Line: Lives on forever with the living earth Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WE SHOULD HAVE WALKED TOWARD THE FARTHEST STAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Improper fractions; what is three times three? Last Line: But I was busy, so I could not teach! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WEB OF WONDERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have assumed the world was made for me Last Line: I should give thanks that room was left for me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WEDDING DRESS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lize kept the dress for over fifty years Last Line: The wedding dress would fit her when she died Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) WHAT MYTHS AND DREAMS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This earth's a giant pudding stone Last Line: And makes new myths to light the dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHAT NOW SEEMS SILENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What music does the spinning spider hear Last Line: The swishing spider web as death appears - Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHAT TO DO WITH A MOUNTAIN LAKE, by DAVID YEZZI Poem Source First Line: We pushed off from the crumbled dam Last Line: Reflected in that seamless span %supporting you and mean Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains WHAT'S THE MATTER,' HE SAYS, TYING ON THE, by JON OLANDER Poem Source Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains WHEN IT'S TIME TO TAP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here's what you need when it's time to tap Last Line: A small boy hustling to hang the buckets up Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHEN LINDA BAKES A CAKE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When linda bakes, the very kitchen changes Last Line: Wearing her mother's apron, playing house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHEN PEOPLE SEE THE MAN OF COLD MOUNTAIN, by HAN-SHAN Poem Source Last Line: A word to those of you passing by - %try coming to cold mountain sometime! Subject(s): Mountains 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) WHITETAIL, 2:30 A.M., by DIANE P. LANDO Poem Source First Line: Black doe hides Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains WHO IS WHO, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Tomaz salamun you are a genius Last Line: Every tree every life every valley every chasm %every enmity every lamb every glow every rainbow Subject(s): Ararat (mountain); Mountains WILD CAT MOUNTAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Wild cat mountain crouches in the catskills Last Line: If I could find the magic that would set him free %to prowl! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD GEESE FLYING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Pulled by some vast immeasurable tide Last Line: Shut out the hoarse, deep calls... The air is chill Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Strawberries should be eaten from a little tin bucket Last Line: I think I've always known that I couldn't go back - Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No house can hold me when wild strawberries Last Line: I cannot keep this wild strawberry day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY DAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Remember wild strawberry days Last Line: And sharp and sweet as remembering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY JAM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In this gleaming jar of wild strawberry jam Last Line: That nobody owns! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD THYME IN HILLSIDE PASTURES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They say this same sweet wild thyme blooms Last Line: The days come back on wild bees' wings Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 WILLIAM TELL, SELS., by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mountains WINTER GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Filigree of junco tracks Last Line: These tiny gleaners seek! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) WISH AT SPRING PLOWING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Spring plowing here has always turned up stones Last Line: And never know the dragon's teeth again! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WITCH HAZEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: From mustard gold to golden rod Last Line: Witch hazel's unexpected gold Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 WITHOUT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I never knew I was without Last Line: My father's arms, my father's voice Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) WRITTEN IN THE MOUNTAINS, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: A mountain's a palace Last Line: And just dropping in for a listen Subject(s): Mountains WU MOUNTAIN, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the ju-tang's winding course is done Last Line: Too bad - for had you never returned, %forgoing food, you would surely never have died Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mountains; Mythology YOSEMITE, by DICK HASTINGS Poem Source First Line: Sunlight %played capriciously Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains; Yosemite Valley And National Park YOU TRIED TO TELL US, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trail of tears almost forgotten Last Line: We would not listen Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Last Line: But you have been dead for thirty years Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past 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) |
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