 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 crystal shrine,...  Arundines cami: Sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori - Page 86edited by - 1865 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...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 chrystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, A« with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Toy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I ^n/.'il upon thee, Till thou, still present... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...silently I 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 I look again It seems thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity. Oh dread and silent form... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...of these in the Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny. ' O dread and silent Mount ! I gaz'd upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranc'd in prayer I worshipp'd the Invisible alone. Yet like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet,... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...How silently ! Around thee and ahove, Deep is the sky and bla'ck — an ehon mass ! . - Methinks then piercest it As with a wedge ; but when I look again It seems thy own calm home, thy crystal sbrine, Thy hahitation from Eternity ! f> dread and silent form... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gaz'd upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Did'et vanish from my thought : entranc'd... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...silently ! Around theo and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black. An ebon mass : melhinks thou piercest it. As with a wedge ! But when I look...eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thec, Till Ihou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...deep, An ebon mass! Methinks thou pierccst it As with a wedge! But when I look again, It seems thy own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity. 0 dread and silent form ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to my bodily eye, Didst vanish from my thought.... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1834 - 348 pages
...one, who now has joined the choir of heaven,* when he exclaimed before the Majesty of Nature— " O dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou,...Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer, I worshipped the Invisible alone." t Thus felt another kindred spirit, when he sang of one who, having... | |
 | Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis) - 1834 - 280 pages
...and frozen cataracts, we almost feel as if permitted to stand in the presence of Divine Majesty. ' O dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou,...Did'st vanish from my thought ; entranced in prayer, I worshipp'd the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are... | |
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