Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EXILE, by KATHARINE TYNAN 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) | ||||||||
SINCE I have lost the mountains, I Look for them in the waste of sky, And think to see at the street's close The lovely line of blue and rose The mountains keep that once I knew. There are no mountains here at all, But only the blank roof and wall Of many houses red and grey. I had forgotten the old way The mountains keep in rain and dew. Even in the pleasant country places, Where the fields' faces are friends' faces, The mountains I shall not forget, The mountains come between us yet, Between me and the woods and streams. The wind that blows across them calls Ever at dawn and evenfalls, And I am suddenly forlorn. Across the pastures and ripe corn I see the mountains in my dreams. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS by HAYDEN CARRUTH GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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