misty-topped

Updated: May 16, 2025

There was something large and generous and untrammelled in the scene, recalling one of Walt Whitman's rhapsodies: "Earth of departed sunsets! Earth of the mountains misty-topped! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!" All the next day we went down with the current.

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness