 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...transpicuous deep An ebon mass ! methihks 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. 0 dread and silent form ! I gazed on thee Till thou, still present to my bodily eye, Didst vanish from my thought. —... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1847 - 382 pages
...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 culm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from Eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon... | |
 | John William Lester - English literature - 1848 - 112 pages
...Around thee and above Deepis the air and dark, substantial, black; An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is...Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer, I worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 pages
...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...thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! O dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...repeated the whole of Coleridge's beautiful hymn, beginning, — An ebon mass ; methinks thou pieroest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is...home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! • * * • Awake, my soul ! Not only passive praise Th?u owest ! Not alone these swelling tears,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1848 - 414 pages
...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, Thv habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present... | |
 | 1849 - 508 pages
...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...entranced in prayer, 1 worshipped the Invisible alone." ST COLKRIDGK. THERE is a cross in the centre of the stone bridge at Sallenches, •whence Mont Blanc... | |
 | Job Durfee (Class of 1813) - American literature - 1849 - 562 pages
...forms of expression, did bat give utterance to the same sublime idea, revealed on like conditions. 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till...Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshiped the Invisible alone. — COLERIDGE. When the Mo internal thus passes from state to state,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...substantial, black. An ebon mass : methmks thou piercest it. As with a wedge ! But when I look agrnm, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine. Thy...from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed apon ihre. Till thou, still present to the bodily sense. Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in... | |
 | Job Durfee (Class of 1813) - American literature - 1849 - 562 pages
...to the same sublime idea, revealed on like conditions. 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thec Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1 worshiped the Invisible alone.—COLERIDGE. When the Me internal thus passes from state to state, whether... | |
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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... 
