 | 1857 - 1352 pages
...Coleridge alludes to this fact in the Alpine Hymn in speaking of the ' Sovran Blanc.' 'Around thce and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial black, An ebon mass.' Till lately, the greatest elevation ever reached by man 'except in a balloon, when a height of from... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...morning-star In his steep course ? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran Blanc ! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly...Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon muss : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge. But when I look again, It is thine own calm home,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...! The Arve, and the Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly, while thou, dread mountain form, Kisest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the sky and black: transpicuous deep, An ebon mass! Methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! but when... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - Waldenses - 1858 - 412 pages
...his cone of glittering snows sharply cutting the sky'a deep azure. THE REVELATION. 163 " Around thes and above, Deep is the air, and dark, substantial, black ; An ebon mass : methinks then piercest it As with a wedge 1 But when I look again, It ia thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine,... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...(ar'va) and ABVEIB.ON, (ar va rong',) small rivers which hav their sources in the foot of Mont Blanc. The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form', ilisest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently ! Around thee, and above, Deep is the air and... | |
 | D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...morning star In his steep course ? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, 0 sovran Blanc ! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly...Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently ! ******* Oh, dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense,... | |
 | Augustus Hill Kelley - Readers - 1914 - 472 pages
...pause On thy bald, awful head,O sovereign Blanc! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave carelessly; but thou, most awful form, Risest from forth thy silent...of pines, How silently! Around thee and above, Deep in the air and dark, substantial black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But,... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...morning-star In his steep course ? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran Blanc ! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful Form ! 10 Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently I Around thee and above Deep is the air aiid dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou...again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, n Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and sileut Mount 1 I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...the morningstar In his steep course ? So long he seems to On thy bald awful head, О sovran Blanc t ave seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud...towers I see downrazed And brass eternal slave to tbee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : me thinks thou piercest... | |
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Form ! Risest from forth thy silent Sea of Pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy... 
