Air of Glory (Utah)

I see them walking in air of glory,     Whose light doth trample on my days: My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,     Mere glimmering and decays. -Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), They Are All Gone into the World of Light

Gusty Shadow (Utah)

And ever when the moon was low,     And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain, to and fro,     She saw the gusty shadow sway. -Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), Mariana

Piercing Splendor (Utah)

Another Splendour on his mouth alit,     That mouth whence it was wont to draw the breath Which gave it strength to pierce the guarded wit,     And pass into the panting heart beneath     With lightning and with music -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais

Last Cloud (Hawaii)

Midst others of less note came one frail form,     A phantom among men, companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm,     Whose thunder is its knell. -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais

Empty Nest (Zion)

Thy spirit's sister, the lorn nightingale,     Mourns not her mate with such melodious pain; Not so the eagle, who like thee could scale     Heaven, and could nourish in the sun's domain     Her mighty youth with morning, doth complain, Soaring and screaming round her empty nest, -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais

Tempestuous Day (Zion)

from which a glorious Phantom may Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day. -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), England in 1819

From Darkness to Light (Bryce)

Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality! -Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 800-500 B.C.

Dark Sails (Hawaii)

The breath whose might I have invoked in song         Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven     Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng         Whose sails were never to the tempest given.         The massy earth and spherèd skies are riven!     I am borne darkly, fearfully afar!         Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of heaven,     The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais

Lost Angel (Hawaii)

Lost angel of a ruined paradise!     She knew not 'twas her own,--as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain. -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais

Signal Light (Acadia)

Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), Paul Revere's Ride

Stormy Mist (South Carolina)

So saddened round her like an atmosphere     Of stormy mist; so swept her on her way, Even to the mournful place where Adonais lay. -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais

Sea of Nothingness (South Carolina)

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,     Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys,     But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; Even the dearest, that I love the best, And strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest. -John Clare (1793-1864), I am, written while he was confined in the General Lunatic Asylum in Northampton, where he spent about the last third of his life.

Cloud City (San Francisco)

What little town by river or sea shore,     Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,         Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? -John Keats (1795-1821), Ode on a Grecian Urn