Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE GORGEOUS HILLS OF MORNING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mock with silent steps these empty places Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature; Homesickness; Scotland | ||||||||
On the gorgeous hills of morning A sudden piping of birds, A piping of all the forest, high and merry and clear, I lay in my tent and listened; I lay and heard them long, In the dark of the moonlit morning, The birds of the night at song. I lay and listened and heard them Sing ere the day was begun; Sing and sink into Silence one by one. I lay in my bed and looked''" Paler than starlight or lightning A glimmer ... In the highlands in the country places Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair lasses Quiet eyes, Light and heat begin, begin and strengthen, And the shadows turn and shrink and lengthen, As the great sun passes in the skies. Life and death go by with heedful faces''" Mock with silent steps these empty places. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SCOTLAND'S WINTER by EDWIN MUIR ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE FUSELAGE INSTALLATION by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA SHOOTING SEASON; IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS IN JOHN UPDIKE'S ROOM by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE HEART OF THE BRUCE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN by ROBERT BURNS A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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