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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY MOTHER'S MEMORY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the summit, wild and lone
Last Line: She gave to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: This is the summit, wild and lone
Last Line: She gave to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Mothers
THIS is the summit, wild and lone.
Westward the Cumbrian mountains stand.
Let me look eastward on mine own
Ancestral land.
O sing me songs, O tell me tales,
Of yonder valleys at my feet!
She was a daughter of those dales,
A daughter sweet.
Oft did she speak of homesteads there,
And faces that her childhood knew.
She speaks no more; and scarce I dare
To deem it true,
That somehow she can still behold
Sunlight and moonlight, earth and sea,
Which were among the gifts untold
She gave to me.
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