Nature
Ah Teneriffe! Retreating Mountain!
From The Single Hound (1914)
Nature
Ah, Teneriffe!
Retreating Mountain!
Purples of Ages pause for you,
Sunset reviews her Sapphire Regiment,
Day drops you her red Adieu !
Still, clad in your mail of ices,
Thigh of granite and thew of steel—
Heedless, alike, of pomp or parting,
Ah, Teneriffe!
I'm kneeling still.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Ah Teneriffe! Retreating Mountain!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/640/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “Ah Teneriffe! Retreating Mountain!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/640/.
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