This poem compares its setting to a desert where "the eagle brings some hunter's bone" and asks, "Is this the scene / where the old Earthquake-daemon taught her young / Ruin?"
This poem compares its setting to a desert where "the eagle brings some hunter's bone" and asks, "Is this the scene / where the old Earthquake-daemon taught her young / Ruin?" The second stanza of this poem concludes by imagining the "still cave of the witch Poesy" where the speaker's mind seeks "Ghosts of all things that are." This poem claims that its addressee has "a voice" to "repeal / Large codes of fraud and woe" and possesses "the secret strength of things" which "to the infinite dome / of Heaven is as a law." This poem was originally published as the culminating piece in History of a Six Weeks' Tour, a collaborative journal the poet wrote with his wife. Beginning "The (*) everlasting universe of things / flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves," this poem often apostrophizes the River Arve and consists of lines written in the Vale of Chamounix on a visit to its title landmark. For 10 points, name this Percy Shelley poem ostensibly about a mountain in the Alps.
This poem compares its setting to a desert where "the eagle brings some hunter's bone" and asks, "Is this the scene / where the old Earthquake-daemon taught her young / Ruin?"
“{Mont Blanc}”