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Poems Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni

Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his deep 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! 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, Thy habitation from eternity! O dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till ...

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