Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREEN MOUNTAIN, by JOHN WEISS First Line: With jocund friends the island's mount I climb Last Line: He's comrade still of all the happy scene. Subject(s): Mount Desert, Maine | ||||||||
WITH jocund friends the island's mount I climb To kindred gladness that, beyond the wood Whose pines are heavy with the solitude, Sacks all the space of sea and sky sublime. Rocks, left austere by winter, laugh again With sweet and happy hearts at summer-tide; O'er cliff and ledge and wave goes laughter wide, As o'er the sea noon's pelting silver rain. A flock of little sails below appears To forage all along the shining waste; Now huddled, and now scattering, without haste, For morning waifs, like sea-birds, each one steers. Of all the sails that catch the sun, and smile, There's one that takes my own mood out to sea: Its laughing side is hidden on the lee; Its shadow tacks to windward all the while. Mid all the gladness, just a faint reserve Wafts me apart, but not to scowl and gloom; The world's wide laughter keeps me in its room, -- My shadow is not sharp enough to swerve. 'T is but the thickness of a sail between. A cloud has caught its buoyant, gilded woof, Too thin to keep the sailor's heart aloof: He's comrade still of all the happy scene. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FAREWELL TO FARGO: SELLING THE HOUSE by KAREN SWENSON THE BEACON; A MUSICAL DRAMA by JOANNA BAILLIE INTELLECT by RALPH WALDO EMERSON PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 18. AL-RAZZAK by EDWIN ARNOLD AN INFANTRYMAN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE EVICTION by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT TO ONE WITH A SPRING NOSEGAY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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