Lyrics from the Hills

# Lyrics from the Hills

This 1891 volume by Charles Armstrong Fox is a collection of lyric poetry organized geographically. Dedicated to the author's deceased sister, the work emphasizes nature as divine revelation and a vehicle for spiritual instruction.

The collection is divided into five regional sections. "Cumberland Hills" contains extended sequences addressing mountain landscapes, waterfalls, and tarns of the Lake District, with subsections like "Mountain Waterbrooks" featuring meditative verses on pilgrimage and natural observation. "Yorkshire Moors" shifts to moorland themes, addressing philosophical and spiritual concerns alongside descriptions of landscape features. "Surrey Hills" celebrates spring and summer in gentler southern terrain—daffodils, nightingales, woodland scenes. "Devonshire Hills" catalogs seasonal natural phenomena: the first snowdrop, swallow, cuckoo, with poems on flora and fauna throughout the year. "Welsh Hills" and "Ludgate Hill to Richmond Hill" extend the geographic survey to Wales and London, the latter including commemorative poems on contemporary figures like General Gordon and J.M.W. Turner. A final section, "Syrian Hills—Sacred Sonnets," applies the nature-poetry mode to biblical subjects and figures.