Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!

-Allingham,William
  'The Fairies'.

Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wandererötill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustrum', l.886^92.

Hisexpressionmayoftenbe called bald†but it isbaldas 34 the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism Second Series,'Wordsworth'.

I'll love you dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven starsgo squawking Like geese about the sky.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'As I  Walked Out One Evening'.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed Hisgrace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.

-Bates, Katharine Lee
  'America the Beautiful', opening lines.

I emerged at last, stumbled a few steps in the mud and then I saw it: an ethereal mountain emerging from a tossing sea of clouds framed between two dark barracksöa massive, blue-black tooth of sheer rock inlaid with azure glaciers, austere yet floating fairy-like on the near horizon. It was the first17,000-foot peak I had ever seen. I stood gazing until the vision disappeared among the shifting cloud banks. For hours afterwards I remained spell-bound. I had definitely fallen in love.

-Benuzzi, Felice
  No Picnic on Mount Kenya.

Great is the L, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 48:1^2.

   Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves'eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flockof sheep that are evenshorn, whichcameup from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. Thy two breasts are liketwo young roesthat aretwins, which feed among the lilies.Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and tothehill of frankincense.Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 4:1^7.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD'SORDORDORDORDIsaiah 40:1^8.

And Jesus said unto them,Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew17:20.

Like a god going thro' his world there stands One mountain, for a moment in the dusk, Whole brotherhoods of cedars on its brow

-Browning, Robert
Pippa Passes, pt.2.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

-Burton, Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior
Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.1, section 2, member 4, subsection 7.

I am forgetting myself into admiring a mountain which is of no use for sheep. This is wrong. A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it.

-Butler, Samuel
  Of Mt Cook.  A FirstYear in Canterbury Settlement.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

-Campbell,Thomas
  The Pleasures of Hope, pt.1, l.7^8.

We are Giants in physical power: in a deeper than metaphorical sense, weareTitans, that strive, byheaping mountain on mountain, to conquer Heaven also.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Signs of the Times.

The last bear, shot drinking in the Dakotas Loped under wires that span the mountain stream. Keen instruments, strung to a vast precision Bind town to town and dream to ticking dream.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'The River'.

To Hunt an'assault'on the mountain merely meant a concerted, military-style operation; whereas to Shipton 'assault'sounded more like a criminal offence.

-Cranfield, Ingrid
  Of the contrast in approach to the climbing of Mt Everest between Eric Shipton, originally appointed as leader of the1953 expedition, and John Hunt, who replaced him. In Expedition, vol.8, no.4,  Jul.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

-Dean,John
  On conviction after the Watergate scandal. In Newsweek, 4  Jul.

Climbing over rocky mountain, Skipping rivulet and fountain.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Girls'chorus, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

Motor racing is dangerous; but what is danger? It is dangerous to climb a mountain. It is dangerous to cross main roads. It is dangerous to explore a jungle.One cannot frame regulations to make everything safe.

-Hawthorn, Mike
  Shortly before his death. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).