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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SILVER FOREST, by ELEANOR M. DENNY First Line: How long since the red ruin ran its tongue Last Line: A silver dream of forests long ago. Subject(s): Mount Rainier | |||
How long since the red ruin ran its tongue Up your strong torsos, down your pendant arms (Where a spiked, plumy greenness crept and clung In beauty), till beneath the fiery harms Writhing, they dropped in blackened mass below, Leaving but ravage where loveliness had stood? Tragic memorial of beauty's foe, Bleak cenotaph to man's foolhardihood! How long? But now against the radiant blue, A phantom host, you lift slim, flame-stripped boles; And, slain, a more transcendent life renew In these upreaching, luminous white souls -- Spectral they stand against the enhaloing glow, A silver dream of forests long ago. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOUNT RAINIER by HERBERT BASHFORD MT. RANIER by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP MOUNT TACOMA by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR MOUNT RAINIER by BENEDICT AUER ANDREA DEL SARTO (CALLED THE FAULTLESS PAINTER) by ROBERT BROWNING EVENING (1) by EMILY DICKINSON ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD by THOMAS GRAY THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SNAKES, MONGOOSES, SNAKE-CHARMERS, AND THE LIKE by MARIANNE MOORE |
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