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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOUNTAIN CLIMBING Matches Found: 82 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF MOUNTAINEERING, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain Last Line: Between the two, I get as much as I lose. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dreams; Mountain Climbing; Sleep; Nightmares A VISIT TO YUAN-CHIU IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth to sylvan retreats I went, a vagabond Last Line: It was lucid day-break when I spoke of going. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ABER STATIONS: STATIO SEPTIMA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavens are very blue Last Line: Be still, o earth, be still! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Heaven; Mountain Climbing; Paradise ABER STATIONS: STATIO SEXTA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! Snow Last Line: But nowhere can I see the little lamb Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Snow ADVENTURES OF KING ROBERT THE BRUCE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King robert the bruce's deadly enemy, john of lorn Last Line: And such was the life, alas! King robert the bruce led! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountain Climbing; Travel; Journeys; Trips ALPINE HONEYMOON, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Just playing, you say, on your heels Last Line: Turning my name over %and over in your dissolving hands? Subject(s): Mountain Climbing AMETHYST, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: A young priest, eager, with white hair, and a boy Last Line: Shadowing him. The stone, kept, for its silences Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Stones AN ALPINE DESCENT, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mule refreshed, his bells Last Line: "along this path to conquer at marengo." Subject(s): Alps; Marengo, Battle Of; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AT DAYBREAK I CROSSED THE PING-JIANG RIVER AND CLIMBED ON FOOT ..., by WANG SHIH-CHEN Poem Source First Line: I really did 'cross above clouds' Last Line: He wanted no fief of ten thousand homes %in the world of mortal men Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Mountain Climbing AT TOWER PEAK, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every tan rolling meadow will turn into housing Subject(s): Nature; Mountain Climbing ATOMIC DAWN, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day I first climbed mt. St. Helens was august 13, 1945. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Atomic Bomb - Victoms; Hiroshima, Japan BEFORE AND AFTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It'll take a while they say Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Mountain Climbing; Valleys BEFORE AND AFTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It'll take a while they say Last Line: But it wouldn't do any good now Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Mountain Climbing; Valleys BIGELOW MOUNTAIN, by NORMAN W. STURTEVANT Poem Text First Line: I see you are so steep and high Last Line: But again, majestic loom, in early morn. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing BREATHLESS, by WILFRED NOYCE Poem Source First Line: Heart aches, lungs pant dry air Last Line: Dry air %sorry, scant Subject(s): Everest, Mount; Mountain Climbing; Travel CLIFF, by PARK TU-JIN Poem Source First Line: How to manage, to climb that steep, awesome scarp Last Line: At the top, at last Subject(s): Mountain Climbing CLIMBER'S LOVE AFFAIR, by C. B. FOLLETT Poem Source First Line: Rock is his life Last Line: Adrenaline pumping its sweet juice Subject(s): Love Affairs; Mountain Climbing CLIMBING, by DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: When he gave up mountains he became Last Line: Sadly he rides the elevator down %and starts again at the foot of the blind wall Subject(s): Mountain Climbing CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN, by TAO YUN Poem Text First Line: High rises the eastern peak Last Line: Where springs and autumns unheeded pass. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Mountain Climbing CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras Last Line: Many men, along time, comrade Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains CLIMBING MOUNT KAGU, by JOWA Poem Source First Line: In the land of yamato Last Line: Island of the dragonfly Subject(s): Mountain Climbing CLIMBING TO KASUGA MOOR, by YAMABE NO AKAHITO Poem Source First Line: High on the peak of mikasa Last Line: My love dies, then lies again Subject(s): Desire; Mountain Climbing DESCENDING, by VALENTIN IREMONGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going down,' she said, tying her yellow scarf Last Line: Of the wind in her hair will be stopped much too soon Variant Title(s): Goinvg Down The Mountai Subject(s): Love; Mountain Climbing DESPITE THE OBSTACLES I PURSUED THE GREAT MONK, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: One round moon - lantern of the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Zen Buddhism EMPTY MOUNTAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: No one %climbs the empty mountain %anymore Last Line: You will be a flame %or a fresh green pine Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Solitude FOR THE BOY WHO WAS DODGER POINT LOOKOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thin blue smoke of our campfire Subject(s): Mountain Climbing FOR THE BOY WHO WAS DODGER POINT LOOKOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thin blue smoke of our campfire Last Line: Three elk, helps keep me sane Subject(s): Mountain Climbing GAZING AT THE MOON FROM SOUTH TOWER, by CHIAO-JAN Poem Source First Line: Moon tonight, and everyone's moon-gazing Last Line: And let the border sadness rise Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Zen Buddhism HANDS, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: I've lived between my hands Last Line: Which shot up hot and high Subject(s): Hands; Mountain Climbing HAVING CLIMBED TO THE TOPMOST PEAK OF THE INCENSE-BURNER MOUNTAIN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and up, the incense-burner peak! Last Line: Then, with lowered head, came back to the ants' nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountain Climbing; Nature; Retirement HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 10, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone upon stone, and man, where was he? Last Line: Of your bitter gut, like an eagle, hunger? Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): History; Hunger; Mountain Climbing; South America; Stones HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 6, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then up the ladder of the earth I climbed Last Line: Cleansing the lonely precinct of the stone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Cities; Mountain Climbing; Stones HELVELLYN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the drak brow of the mighty helvellyn Last Line: In the arms of helvellyn and catchedicam. Variant Title(s): Hellvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England; Mountain Climbing; Valor; Bravery I GAINED IT SO, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I wore — an hour ago Subject(s): Mountain Climbing I WANT TO GO WANDERING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to go wandering. Who shall declare Last Line: Wandering. ... Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Mountain Climbing; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes INSCRIBED ON THE WALL OF THE HUT BY THE LAKE, by CHIAO-JAN Poem Source First Line: If you want to be a mountain dweller Last Line: What holds you there, %world-dweller? Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Zen Buddhism JOHN MUIR ON MT. RITTER, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After scanning its face again and again, Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Muir, John (1838-1914) LINES COMPOSED WHILE CLIMBING THE LEFT ASCENT OF BROCKLEY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With many a pause and oft reverted eye Last Line: Enchanting spot! O were my sara here! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing MANUSCRIPT ENGLISH ELEGIACS ON MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING IN CUMBERLAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vale of the north, farewell! Farewell, o pastoral valley Last Line: Never a thought unblest darken the image of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Cumberland, England; Mountain Climbing MANUSCRIPT POEM SENT TO OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL CERTIFICATE AWARDERS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Me, for the oxford and the cambridge board Last Line: Such schools as need them are enclosed herewith. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing MOUNT BLANK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Until, the next morning in the sun, there Last Line: Fell, beacon gray, unsurmounted with light Subject(s): Mountain Climbing MOUNTAIN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a great snow Last Line: Love all knowledge high- %est hope mortal desire! Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Mountain Climbing MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only on the rarest occasions, when the blue air Last Line: That way, as is said of certain hill creatures Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Fanatics And Fanaticism; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Volcanoes MOUNTAINEER'S PRAYER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gird me with the strength of thy steadfast hills Last Line: In the life that I share with thee! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Prayer MOUNTAINEERS, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain-horn shall ring Last Line: When the hills shake with thunderbolts, -- can tire. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing MOUNTAINEERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They climb with eager feet Last Line: Or near they are. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mountain Climbing MOUNTING THE HILL, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mounting the hill I found it long Last Line: Was the blue hill far behind me! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing NEARING THE SNOW LINE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow toiling upward from the misty vale Last Line: And all the unclouded blue of heaven is thine! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing NIVE CANDIDUM SORACTE, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: There are those who laugh for the winter Last Line: Which persists in chattering and shivering outside. Subject(s): Cold; Mountain Climbing; Skiing; Winter NOCTURNE FOR THE TOWN, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Here the heavy shadow of the conspiracy of reason Last Line: By wonder of wakers looking on the mountain. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing OVER THE RANGES, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Says allan machardy, 'beyond the high ranges there's land for the men Last Line: "is, ""may god help him then!" Subject(s): Deception; Mountain Climbing; Travel; Journeys; Trips PEAKS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day when I was feeling absolutely healthy Last Line: Absolute tibetans in an upper air of their best days to dream us whole Subject(s): Mountain Climbing PHANTASIA FOR ELVIRA SHATAYEV, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cold felt cold until our blood Last Line: To settle for less. We have dreamed of this %all of our lives Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Women SAINT SEBASTIAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many times I have felt them come, lord Last Line: Thy kingdom that on these erring shafts comes Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sebastian, Saint (d. 288) SINGING OF CLOUD MOUNTAIN, by CHIH LIANG Poem Source First Line: People may talk about a ladder to heaven Last Line: And a spring that runs down %in nine separate streams Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Zen Buddhism SONG TO THE MOUNTAINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Mountains loom upon the path we take Last Line: Resting there at last we sing our song Subject(s): Mountain Climbing;mountains; Hills;downs (great Britain) STORIED SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weary traveler, who, all night long Last Line: His weak steps slide, he shrieks, he sinks -- he dies! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Alps; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STRATUM I: PETRARCH, by THOMAS KLING Poem Source First Line: The peak ahead, the slope behind me Last Line: By noon, thin air. Then distance Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountains STRATUM III: BEATRICE, by THOMAS KLING Poem Source First Line: This hair is snow-white, this hair Last Line: Of words: a hunger, deeply felt, for everything Subject(s): Dreams; Mountain Climbing SUSAN LONGMIRE: THE 1891 ASCENT OF MT. RAINIER, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was thirteen years old Last Line: Like icebergs on a choppy sea Subject(s): Mountain Climbing SWITZERLAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the steamy, stuffy midlands, 'neath an english summer sky Last Line: And the true delight of living, as you taste it only there! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips THE ASCENT OF SNOWDON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How merrily they plied the alpine staff Last Line: And caught and kiss'd the wandering thistle-seeds. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Snowdon (mountain), Wales THE CATARACT OF LUH SHAN, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward I ascend the peak of incense burner Last Line: And leave the world of man forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Waterfalls THE DESCENT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nailed by our axes to the snow Last Line: It'll way be this side of china, for sure Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Death; Dead, The THE GUIDE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I loved the high country, the snow and the cold Last Line: There was no way to go, but on? Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Mountain Climbing THE HILLS OF OLD VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'native' hills of old vermont Last Line: Amidst the hills of old vermont. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE TOBOGGAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Interpretation is an overworked word Last Line: For them it is heaven to climb and to ride. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sports Utility Vehicles; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MOUNTAIN, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain heaves before me, green and gray Last Line: Within this loftier sphere where ye do reign. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MOUNTAINEER, by FRANK PIERCE GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: He sits astride his brawny horse Last Line: We would be mountaineers. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Nature THE MOUNTAINEER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, at the eagle's height Last Line: And god is alone with him. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE WONDERS OF THE LANE, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong climber of the mountain's side Last Line: Thy little ones would sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Mountain Climbing THESE LEGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their flat earth rest Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Legs; Mountain Climbing; Nature; Weariness TIME OUT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It took that pause to make him realize Last Line: (and was a text albeit done in plant) Subject(s): Mountain Climbing TO - [MISS BLACKETT] ON HER FIRST ASCENT ... HELVELLYN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inmate of a mountain-dwelling Last Line: To confess their majesty! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE LOVER FAR ON THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here on this high top far above the world Last Line: With the dear god that dwells behind them both. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mountain Climbing; Nature UP AND DOWN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of a sweet summer morning Last Line: The benefit still of the doubt! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Love; Advice VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY AMMONS AND LI PO, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night on the national geographic channel Last Line: And then the moon Subject(s): Geography; Mountain Climbing; Travel WHEN LORD OTOMO, THE REVENUE OFFICER, CLIMBED MOUNT TSUKUBA, by TAKAHASHI MUSHIMARO Poem Source First Line: My lord came to survey Last Line: Even that day grows pale Subject(s): Mountain Climbing WHITE ROCK RAPIDS, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: Standing on the rocks, gazing at the water below Last Line: Women wash gauze under a bright moon Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Nature; Stones; Zen Buddhism WRITTEN AFTER CLIMBING KAGUYAMA TO SURVEY THE LAND, by JOWA Poem Source First Line: Many are the hills Last Line: This land yamato of bounteous harvests! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing YUCCA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Our lord's candle %bursts from the granite mountain Last Line: With a continual hum Subject(s): Mountain Climbing |
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