Showing posts with label Harriet Monroe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harriet Monroe. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Born on this day – Harriet Monroe:


Harriet Monroe


Writer

December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936

Credits:

Books:

A Poet's Life - Seventy Years in a Changing World (1938); Dance of the Seasons (1911); John Wellborn Root: A Study of His Life and Work (1896); Poets And Their Art (1926); The New Poetry: Anthology of 20th Century Verse (1921); The Passing Show - Five Modern Plays in Verse (1903); Valeria and other Poems (1892); You and I - Poems (1914).

The Blue Ridge, poem by Harriet Monroe:


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.


Harriet Monroe

December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936

Video by Jack Kost
2025


Blue Ridge Mountains (2019)
Photographs by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:
Forest wind and birds
by freesound_community
from Pixabay.