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• The Snows

  OVER the Snows 1
  Buoyantly goes
  The lumberers’ bark canoe: …

  Charles Sangster

• My River

  From the German by James Clarence Mangan
  RIVER! my river in the young sunshine!
  Oh, clasp afresh in thine embrace …

  Eduard Mörike

• On the Rhine

  ’t Was morn, and beautiful the mountain’s brow—
  Hung with the clusters of the bending vine—
  Shone in the early light, when on the Rhine …

  William Lisle Bowles

• The Fall of Niagara

  The Thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,
  While I look upward to thee. It would seem
  As if God poured thee from his hollow hand, …

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

• To Seneca Lake

  On thy fair bosom, silver lake,
  The wild swan spreads his snowy sail,
  And round his breast the ripples break, …

  James Gates Percival

• The Bugle

  From “The Princess”
  THE SPLENDOR falls on castle walls
  And snowy summits old in story: …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Calm on Lake Leman

  From “Childe Harold,” Canto III.
  CLEAR, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake,
  With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing …

  Lord Byron

• The Silence of the Hills

  The Windy forest, rousing from its sleep,
  Voices its heart in hoarse Titanic roar;
  The ocean bellows from its rocky shore; …

  William Prescott Foster

• Storm in the Alps

  From “Childe Harold,” Canto III.
  THE SKY is changed!—and such a change! O night,
  And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, …

  Lord Byron

• Choral Song

  From the Greek by Henry Hart Milman
  From “The Bacchæ”
  ON the mountains wild ’t is sweet, …

  Euripides

• An Alpine Descent

  MY mule refreshed, his bells
  Jingled once more, the signal to depart,
  And we set out in the gray light of dawn, …

  Samuel Rogers

• “Mont Blanc yet gleams on high”

  From “Mont Blanc”
  MONT BLANC yet gleams on high:—the power is there,
  The still and solemn power of many sights, …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• The Primeval Forest

  From “Evangeline,” Introduction
  THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
  Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Greenwood Tree

  From “As You Like It,” Act II. Sc. 5.
  UNDER the greenwood tree
  Who loves to lie with me, …

  William Shakespeare

• The Wind and the Pine-Tree

  From “Edwin the Fair”
  THE TALE was this:
  The wind, when first he rose and went abroad …

  Sir Henry Taylor

• The Brave Old Oak

  A Song to the oak, the brave old oak,
  Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
  Here ’s health and renown to his broad green crown, …

  Henry Fothergill Chorley

• The Holly-Tree

  O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see
  The holly-tree?
  The eye that contemplates it well perceives …

  Robert Southey

• The Arab to the Palm

  Next to thee, O fair gazelle,
  O Beddowee girl, beloved so well;
  Next to the fearless Nedjidee, …

  Bayard Taylor

• The Palm-Tree

  Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm,
  On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm?
  Or is it a ship in the breezeless calm? …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Grape-Vine Swing

  Lithe and long as the serpent train,
  Springing and clinging from tree to tree,
  Now darting upward, now down again, …

  William Gilmore Simms

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