To a Mountain
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| "To a Mountain" | |
|---|---|
| by Henry Kendall | |
| First published in | Songs from the Mountains |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 1880 |
| Full text | |
 The Poems of Henry Kendall/To a Mountain at Wikisource | |
"To a Mountain" (1880) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Kendall.[1]
It was originally published in the poet's collection Songs from the Mountains in 1880 and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.[1]
The poems is also known as "Dedication : To a Mountain" as it was placed as an introductory poem for his collection.[1]
A reviewer in The Australasian noted the poem's "feeling of the calm majesty of nature" in a review of the poet's collection Songs from the Mountains.[2]
Judith Wright, looking at Kendall's work in Preoccupations in Australian Poetry called it "deeply interesting, because in it, for the first time, Kendall transcends his central and tormenting preoccupation, his yearning for peace and the past and the Eden-rivers of his childhood, and (literally) looks down on his dream-valleys from a new height."[3]