Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VERMONT, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poet Analysis First Line: But what to us are centuries dead Last Line: Pale tinted with rose and amethyst! Subject(s): Vermont | ||||||||
BUT what to us are centuries dead, And rolling years forever fled, Compared with thee, O grand and fair Vermont, -- our goddess mother? Strong with the strength of thy verdant hills, Fresh with the freshness of mountain rills, Pure as the breath of the fragrant pine, Glad with the gladness of youth divine, Serenely thou sittest throned to-day Where the free winds that round thee play Rejoice in thy wave of sun-bright hair, O thou, our glorious mother! Rejoice in thy beautiful strength and say, Earth holds not such another! Thou art not old with thy hundred years, Nor worn with care, or toil, or tears, But all the glow of the summer time Is thine to-day in thy glorious prime! Thy brow is fair as the winter snows, With a stately calm in its still repose; While the breath of the rose the wild bee sips, Half mad with joy, cannot eclipse The marvellous sweetness of thy lips; And the deepest blue of the laughing skies Hides in the depths of thy fearless eyes, Gazing afar over land and sea Wherever thy wandering children be! Fold on fold, Over thy form of grandest mould, Floweth thy robe of forest green, Now light, now dark, in its emerald sheen. Its broidered hem is of wild-flowers rare, With feathery fern-fronds light as air Fringing its borders. In thy hair Sprays of the pink arbutus twine, And the curling rings of the wild grape-vine. They girdle is woven of silver streams; Its clasp with the opaline lustre gleams Of a lake asleep in the sunset beams; And, half concealing And half revealing, Floats over all a veil of mist Pale tinted with rose and amethyst! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT by NORMAN DUBIE THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL by NORMAN DUBIE THE CROWS AT 3 A.M. by STANLEY PLUMLY ALBANY BUS STATION by RUTH STONE FALL COMES IN BACK-COUNTRY VERMONT by ROBERT PENN WARREN A SNOW-STORM; SCENE IN A VERMONT WINTER by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN A VERMONT 'DONATION' by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY A MOTHER-SONG by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR |
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