Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5481834Full view - About this book
| Almanacs, American - 1851 - 316 pages
...impressive by the thunder of the avalanche, one is prepared to take up the sublime song of the British poet: Motionless torrents ! Silent cataracts ! Who made...loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? " G-OD !" let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer; and let the ice-plains echo, "Goo!" "Goo !" sing,... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 pages
...— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made...loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God! singye... | |
| Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty noise, And stopped at once amidst their maddest plunge, — Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made...Who bade the Sun Clothe you with rainbows ! Who with lovely flowers Of living blue spread garlands at your feet ? — God ! God ! the torrents like a shout... | |
| Elizabeth Fries Ellet - Children's stories - 1847 - 286 pages
...invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder, and eternal foam?" " Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven, Beneath...with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest hues, spread garlands at your feet ? God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1847 - 382 pages
...— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stopped at once, amidst their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts? Who made you...Heaven Beneath the keen full Moon? Who bade the Sun fclothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gales of Heaven Beneath the keen full Moon ? Who bade the Sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowera Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feel ?— God! let the torrents, like a shout of... | |
| American literature - 1847 - 440 pages
...— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made...as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon 1 Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows'! Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands... | |
| John William Lester - English literature - 1848 - 112 pages
...forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered, and the same for ever ? \Vho gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your...flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feetf God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stupp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! — Motionless torrents ! Silent cataracts ! Who made...Clothe you with rainbows ? Who with living flowers or loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet ? God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations,... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...rest ?" Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made...! Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who "Vvilh living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet ? " GOD !" let the torrents,... | |
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