I see before me now a travelling army halting,
Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen,
...

Poet: Walt Whitman

Thou tall, majestic monarch of the wood,
That standeth where no wild vines dare to creep,
Men call thee old, and say that thou hast stood
A century upon my rugged steep;
Yet unto me thy life is but a day,
When I recall the things that I have seen,—...

Oh, the fern, the fern, the Irish hill fern,
That girds our blue lakes from Lough Ine to Lough Erne,
That waves on our crags like the plume of a king,
And bends like a nun over clear well and spring.
The fairies’ tall palm-tree, the heath-bird’s fresh nest,...

On Turning One Down with the Plough in April, 1786

WEE, modest, crimson-tippèd flower,
Thou ’s met me in an evil hour,
For I maun crush amang the stoure
        Thy slender stem;
To spare thee now is past my power,
        Thou bonny gem.

...
Poet: Robert Burns

Bloom upon the Mountain — stated —

Blameless of a Name —

Efflorescence of a Sunset —

Reproduced — the same —


Seed, had I, my Purple Sowing

Should endow the Day —

Not a Topic of a Twilight —
...

Poet:

I bought a run a while ago

On country rough and ridgy,

Where wallaroos and wombats grow --

The Upper Murrumbidgee.

The grass is rather scant, it's true,

But this a fair exchange is,

The sheep can see a...

Poet:

Nor Mountain hinder Me

Nor Sea —

Who's Baltic —

Who's Cordillera?

Poet:

The mountain sat upon the plain

In his eternal chair,

His...

Poet:

The Mountain sat upon the Plain

In his tremendous Chair —

His observation omnifold,

His inquest, everywhere —


The Seasons played around his knees

Like Children round a sire —

Grandfather of the Days...

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