Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Green Mountains, Vt. | | The Green Mountains | | James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| | | YE mountains, that far off lift up your heads, | |
| Seen dimly through their canopies of blue, | |
| The shade of my unrestful spirit sheds | |
| Distance-created beauty over you; | |
| I am not well content with this far view; | 5 |
| How may I know what foot of loved one treads | |
| Your rocks moss-grown and sun-dried torrent beds? | |
| We should love all things better, if we knew | |
| What claims the meanest have upon our hearts; | |
| Perchance even now some eye, that would be bright | 10 |
| To meet my own, looks on your mist-robed forms; | |
| Perchance your grandeur a deep joy imparts | |
| To souls that have encircled mine with light,— | |
| O brother-heart, with thee my spirit warms! | | | | |
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