Famous Snow On The Mountain Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Snow On The Mountain poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous snow on the mountain poems. These examples illustrate what a famous snow on the mountain poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Ascent To The Sierras

by Robinson Jeffers
 Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising
Begins to possess the ground, the flatness gathers 
 to little humps and
barrows, low aimless ridges,
A sudden violence of rock crowns them. The crowded 
 orchards end, they
have come to a stone knife;
The farms are finished; the sudden foot of the 
 slerra. Hill over hill,
snow-ridge beyond mountain gather
The blue air of...Read more of this...

Admonitions To A Special Person

by Anne Sexton
 Watch out for power,
for its avalanche can bury you,
snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain.

Watch out for hate,
it can open its mouth and you'll fling yourself out
to eat off your leg, an instant leper.

Watch out for friends,
because when you betray them,
as you will,
they will bury their heads in the toilet
and flush themselves away.

Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much...Read more of this...

Admonitions to a Special Person

by Anne Sexton
 Watch out for power, 
for its avalanche can bury you, 
snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain. 

Watch out for hate, 
it can open its mouth and you’ll fling yourself out 
to eat off your leg, an instant leper. 

Watch out for friends, 
because when you betray them, 
as you will, 
they will bury their heads in the toilet 
and...Read more of this...

Shoveling Snow With Buddha

by Billy Collins
 In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok
you would never see him doing such a thing,
tossing the dry snow over a mountain
of his bare, round shoulder,
his hair tied in a knot,
a model of concentration.

Sitting is more his speed, if that is the word
for what he does, or does not do.

Even the season is wrong for him.
In...Read more of this...

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