Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | South America: Andes, the Mountains | | The Andes | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | (From The Spirit of Discovery by Sea)
BEYOND the misty main | |
| The weary eye scarce wanders, when behold | |
| Plata, through vaster territory poured; | |
| And Andes, sweeping the horizon’s tract, | |
| Mightiest of mountains! whose eternal snows | 5 |
| Feel not the nearer sun; whose umbrage chills | |
| The murmuring ocean; whose volcanic fires | |
| A thousand nations view, hung like the moon | |
| High in the middle waste of heaven; thy range, | |
| Shading far off the Southern hemisphere, | 10 |
| A dusky file Titanic. | | | | |
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