Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

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Alfred Castner King. Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

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PREFACE

Mountain Idylls and Other Poems

Grandeur

"Majestic turrets and the stately dome." MOUNTAIN VIEW, SAN JUAN, COLORADO

"The trachyte wall beseamed and battle scarred." SCENE IN OURAY COUNTY, COLORADO

"Would seem in more accord and harmony, With such surroundings than the puny form Of insignificant, conceited man." UNCOMPAHGRE CAÑON, NEAR OURAY, COLORADO

"Both solitary and in straggling groups; In solid phalanx, rigid and compact." MOUNTAIN SCENE, SAN JUAN COUNTY, COLORADO

Nature's Child

To the Pines

Reflections

Life's Mystery

The Fallen Tree

There is an Air of Majesty

Think Not that the Heart is Devoid of Emotion

"Where nature's chemistry distills, The fountain and the laughing rills." SCENE NEAR TELLURIDE, SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO

Humanity's Stream

Nature's Lullaby

"Where the torrent falls o'er the mountain wall." BRIDAL VEIL FALLS, NEAR TELLURIDE, SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO

The Spirit of freedom is Born of the Mountains

The Valley of the San Miguel

"Where the mountains high, cleave the azure sky, With their turrets so bleak and gray." LIZARD HEAD, SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO

To Mother Huberta

Suggested by a Mountain Eagle

"And by the mountain crystal lake A rustic habitation make." TROUT LAKE, SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO

The Silvery San Juan

"Where the ceaseless erosions of measureless time, Have chiseled the grotto and canon sublime." BOX CAÑON, LOOKING INWARD, OURAY, COLORADO

As the Shifting Sands of the Desert

"Which smile from their heights on the town of Ouray." OURAY, COLORADO

Missed

If I Have Lived Before

The Darker Side

The Miner

Life's Undercurrent

"Have cut the deep gorge with its wonderful curves." BOX CAÑON, LOOKING OUTWARD, OURAY, COLORADO

They Cannot See the Wreaths We Place

Mother.—Alpha and Omega

Empty are the Mother's Arms

In Deo Fides

Shall Love, as the Bridal Wreath, Whither and Die?

Shall Our Memories Live When the Sod Rolls Above Us?

A Reverie

Love's Plea

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Despair

"Its noble form magnificent and proud, Doth prostrate lie, nor ever riseth more." IRONTON PARK, OURAY COUNTY, COLORADO

Hidden Sorrows

O, a Beautiful Thing Is the Flower That Fadeth!

Smiles

A Request

Battle Hymn

The Nations Peril

Echoes from Galilee

Go, And Sin No More

Gently Lead Me, Star Divine

"Wherever I wander my ears hear the sound, Of thy waters which plunge with a turbulent sound." BEAR CREEK FALLS, UNCOMPAHGRE CAÑON, NEAR OURAY, COLORADO

Dying Hymn

In Mortem Meditare

Deprive This Strange and Complex World

The Legend of St. Regimund

As The Indian

The Fragrant Perfume of the Flowers

An Answer

Fame

The First Storm

Thoughts

From A Saxon Legend

Christmas Chimes

The Unknowable

The Suicide

I Think When I Stand in the Presence of Death

Hope

Metabole

FINIS

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Alfred Castner King

Published by Good Press, 2019

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