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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MOUNTAINS OF BERNE, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poet's Biography First Line: I turn the pages and recall Last Line: The colors which the soul holds fast! Variant Title(s): A Swiss Guide-book Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss | |||
I TURN the pages and recall Old wanderings in the enchanted land; The mountain-path, the waterfall, The glacier's chill, the lake's sweet strand. Again, from the green slopes of Bern, With eyes by waiting eager grown, In rapture I afar discern The lifted Jungfrau's "great white throne." From Murren's pastures zoned with snow, I watch the peaks, with quickened breath, Flush in the sunset's passionate glow, -- Fade into pallor passing death. From Wengern through the lonely night I hear the avalanche's fall; Or up the Scheideck's weary height Follow the Alp-horn's echoing call. Eiger and Monch and Wetterhorn Majestic cleave the sky anew; And O, what trembling lights are born In Lucerne's emerald, Leman's blue! Names! yet what alchemy is yours, Out from the ashes of the past To call the picture which endures, The colors which the soul holds fast! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE PRISONER OF CHILLON by GEORGE GORDON BYRON SWITZERLAND by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES THE COUNTRY OF A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL SWITZERLAND AND ITALY by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE SWISS EMIGRANT by LUCY AIKEN MONCH AND JUNGFRAU by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES VESPER HYMN by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW |
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