Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE LOVER FAR ON THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Here on this high top far above the world Last Line: With the dear god that dwells behind them both. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mountain Climbing; Nature | ||||||||
HERE on this high top far above the world This mute and glorious scene, earth's panorama [The swelling mountains, all in green and gold, Round-topped, or broken into savage crags; The valleys scarcely shown, like narrow rifts; The slate-dark shadows, and the tarns and lakes, And vistas over them to sunny lands Of tiny patchwork, with quaint fields and farms, White sails on waters, and the sun-splashed sea:] Here on this high top dreaming, to it all I find but one fit likeness Namely the gracious form of her I love. The limbs and hair, the lips, the eyes, I love Twin heavenlit lakes And undulant lines that run from hips to shoulder; Fair world of hollow and rondure, hill and plain, So solid-fair like this, so dewy-fragrant, And all inwrought with that dear life that holds me. How calm this air! this silence here in heaven Calm blue, and tender hanging clouds delaying To kiss their shadows on the hills' deep breasts; And far around this dream of human presence Nature, and my sweet Helpmate whom I worship, With the dear god that dwells behind them both. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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