 Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky, Mont Blanc appears, still, snowy, and serene; Its subject mountains their unearthly forms Pile around it, ice and rock; broad vales between Of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps, Blue as the overhanging heaven,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 4181818Full view - About this book
 | Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Arnold Lunn - Alps - 1927 - 328 pages
...among the viewless gales ! Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky, Mont Blanc appears,—still, snowy, and serene— Its subject mountains their unearthly...the eagle brings some hunter's bone, And the wolf tracks her there—how hideously Its shapes are heaped around ! rude, bare, and high, Ghastly, and... | |
 | Walter Edwin Peck - Poets, English - 1927 - 650 pages
...Tanyrallt in 1812. Mont Blanc brought "a sentiment of extatic wonder, not unallied to madness," 66 while Mont Blanc appears, — still, snowy, and serene —...their unearthly forms Pile around it, ice and rock ; 67 Chamouni was reached on this second day at six o'clock. A visit to the Glacier des Bossons, which... | |
 | Melvin Theodor Solve - Poetry - 1927 - 232 pages
...men, he was in his maturity aware of discords there too. Mount Blanc, with its accumulated steeps, is A desert peopled by the storms alone, Save when the eagle brings some hunter's bone, And the wolf tracks her there — how hideously Its shapes are heaped around! rude, bare, and high, Ghastly and... | |
 | Ernest Frederic Neve - Hospitals - 1928 - 256 pages
...at the centre in a crown of peaks encircling a magnificent snowfield. This is Mount Haramouk : "... Still, snowy and serene, Its subject mountains their...that spread And wind among the accumulated steeps." In the early morning the valleys which lead up to it are full of mystery. For they are veiled by the... | |
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