Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Western States | | Alaska | | Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
| | (From The Pleasures of Hope)
ANGEL of life! thy glittering wings explore | |
| Earth’s loneliest bounds and ocean’s wildest shore. | |
| Lo! to the wintry winds the pilot yields | |
| His bark careering o’er unfathomed fields; | |
| Now on Atlantic waves he rides afar, | 5 |
| Where Andes, giant of the western star, | |
| With meteor standard to the winds unfurled, | |
| Looks from his throne of clouds o’er half the world. | |
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| Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, | |
| On Behring’s rocks, or Greenland’s naked isles: | 10 |
| Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, | |
| From wastes that slumber in eternal snow; | |
| And waft, across the waves’ tumultuous roar, | |
| The wolf’s long howl from Oonalaska’s shore. | | | | |
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