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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


The Mountain


The mountain sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair,
His observation omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.

The seasons prayed around his knees,
Like children round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he,
Of dawn the ancestor.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Remorse
  2. Deed
  3. Time's Lesson
  4. The Shelter
  5. Good Night! Which Put the Candle out?


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Robert Frost The Mountain ("The mountain held the town as in a shadow")

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