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Quotes from Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772–1834 England

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Great hierarch! tell thou the silent sky,
And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun,
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines.

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost.

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? So long he seems to pause
On thy bald awful head, О sovran Blanc!

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

O struggling with the darkness all the night,
And visited all night by troops of stars.

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds!
Ye signs and wonders of the element!
Utter forth ' God,' and fill the hills with praise!

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

Awake, my soul! not only passive praise
Thou owest! not alone these swelling tears,
Mute thanks and secret ecstasy. Awake,
Voice of sweet song! awake, my heart, awake!
Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my hymn.

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

O dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee,
Till thou, still present to the bodily sense,
Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer,
I worshipped the Invisible alone.

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

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!

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.