 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 of...  First flowers, by a literary amateur - Seite 71von First flowers - 1825 - 271 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...came — " Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest ?" 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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest ; Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! Silent cataracts ! Who... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 Seiten
...came, — Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest 1 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 ! —... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 Seiten
...— His own invented torments." 2. Poetic Apostrophe. " 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 430 Seiten
...silence came) Here let the billows stiffen and have rest ? 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, amidst their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts !... | |
 | Frozen stream - 1846 - 162 Seiten
...when he thus addressed the glaciers of Mont Blanc — " 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 amidst their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - 1846 - 360 Seiten
...statutes and his judgments unto Israel. Praise ye the LORD."* " 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! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1846 - 434 Seiten
...silence came,) Here let the billows stiffen and have rest ? Ye ice-rails ! ye that from (lie 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest ? 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... | |
 | 1847 - 440 Seiten
...blue.' " We here insert a short extract from this " Hymn :" " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who... | |
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