 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! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee,...  The Practical Teacher - Page cxxviii1884Full view - About this book
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...when I look again, It is thine own cahn home, thy crystal shrine — Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till...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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! Oh dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou,...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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till...to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranc'd in prayer 1 worshipp'd the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didat vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some... | |
 | Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 662 pages
...thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! () dread and silent Mount ! I gaxrd upon (lite, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer I worshipped the Invisible ulonc. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we arc... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee, Till...entranced in prayer, 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet, beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile,... | |
 | Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - Poetry - 1984 - 232 pages
...the Psalms',*1 0 dread and silent form! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to my bodily eye, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the INVISIBLE alone. Yet thou meantime, wast working on my soul, E'en like some deep enchanting melody. (11. 13-18; 1802... | |
 | H. Paul Santmire - Religion - 1985 - 296 pages
...But when 1 look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till...entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone." Coleridge is here giving expression to a certain romantic sensibility, which blossomed in his era,... | |
 | Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - History - 1995 - 128 pages
...But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till...entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile... | |
 | Wolfgang Kemp - Art - 1992 - 530 pages
...Coleridge, in "Hymn Before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni," celebrated Mont Blanc in these words: 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till...Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer I worshipped the Invisible alone. As thought and emotion ascend heavenward, the mountain itself gradually... | |
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