Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: White Mountains, N. H. | | Clouds on Whiteface | | Lucy Larcom (1826–1893) |
| | | SO lovingly the clouds caress his head,— | |
| The mountain-monarch; he, severe and hard, | |
| With white face set like flint horizon-ward; | |
| They weaving softest fleece of gold and red, | |
| And gossamer of airiest silver thread, | 5 |
| To wrap his form, wind-beaten, thunder-scarred. | |
| They linger tenderly, and fain would stay, | |
| Since he, earth-rooted, may not float away. | |
| He upward looks, but moves not; wears their hues; | |
| Draws them unto himself; their beauty shares; | 10 |
| And sometimes his own semblance seems to lose, | |
| His grandeur and their grace so interfuse; | |
| And when his angels leave him unawares, | |
| A sullen rock, his brow to heaven he bares. | | | | |
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