The Blue Ridge
Poem by Harriet Monroe.Still and calm,
In purple robes of kings,
The low-lying mountains sleep at the edge of the world.
The forests cover them like mantles;
Day and night
Rise and fall over them like the wash of waves.
Asleep, they reign.
Silent, they say all.
Hush me, O slumbering mountains –
Send me dreams.
In purple robes of kings,
The low-lying mountains sleep at the edge of the world.
The forests cover them like mantles;
Day and night
Rise and fall over them like the wash of waves.
Asleep, they reign.
Silent, they say all.
Hush me, O slumbering mountains –
Send me dreams.
Harriet Monroe
December 23, 1860 –
September 26, 1936
Video by Jack Kost
2025
2025
Sound effect credit:
Forest wind and birds
by freesound_community
from Pixabay.
