Poetry

Alaska

Ice built, ice bound, and ice bounded,
Such cold seas of silence! such room!
Such snow-light, such smite like a doom!
Hear that boom! Hear that deep distant boom
Of an avalanche hurled
Down this unfinished world!

Ice seas! and ice summits! ice spaces
In splendor of white, as God's throne!
Ice worlds to the pole! and ice places
Untracked, and unnamed, and unknown!
Hear that boom! Hear the grinding, the groan
Of yon ice mountain hurled
Down this unfinished world!

By Joaquin Miller


I found this poetry from the "My American. A Poetry Atlas of the United States.
I do not know who is Joaquin Miller. But one day I would like to go and visit Alaska.
Alaska, the "Ice worlds to the Pole". One day. 16012014.