Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79.

South America: Andes, the Mountains

The Andes

By William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850)

BEYOND the misty main

The weary eye scarce wanders, when behold

Plata, through vaster territory poured;

And Andes, sweeping the horizon’s tract,

Mightiest of mountains! whose eternal snows

Feel not the nearer sun; whose umbrage chills

The murmuring ocean; whose volcanic fires

A thousand nations view, hung like the moon

High in the middle waste of heaven; thy range,

Shading far off the Southern hemisphere,

A dusky file Titanic.