Passage of the Apennines by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A speaker asks Mary to listen to the Apennine's roar, comparing it to thunder and a raging sea heard by captives in a cave. The mountain appears dim and gray by day but is imagined walking abroad with the storm at night.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 137 words
First lines
Listen, listen, Mary mine, / To the whisper of the Apennine, / It bursts on the roof like the thunder's roar, / Or like the sea on a northern shore, / Heard in its raging ebb and flow / By the captives pent in the cave below. / The Apennine in the light of day / Is a mighty mountain dim and gray, / Which between the earth and sky doth lay; / But when night comes, a chaos dread / On the dim starlight then is spread, / And the Apennine walks abroad with the storm, / Shrouding...
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The verse describes a mountain's daytime appearance and its threatening presence amid starlight and storm.
- Lyric Poetry — A direct appeal to Mary leads into rhyming descriptions of the mountain's sound and changing appearance.
Tags
mountains · storms · night · personification
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 137 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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