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" Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. "
Byron - Page 116
by John Nichol - 1899 - 212 pages
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A Second Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...faults to hide. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of cloud, With a diadem of snow. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To...
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Poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...thy wish avow'd ! Voice of the SECOND SPIRIT. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains : They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand ; But ere it fall, that thundering ball...
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A sketch of a tour in Switzerland, in a series of letters

John HAYDEN (Independent Minister.) - 1859 - 120 pages
...be more striking to the eye of the beholder. "Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." While at the Flegere we saw through a glass two adventurous American travellers ascending Mont Blanc....
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...thy wish avow'd ! Voice of the SECOND SPIRIT. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crown'd ron" George Gordon Byron Byron( Anjund his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche In his hand ; Bal ere it fall, that thundering ball...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...ravine, called out, as a jubilant apotheosis, — Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; Ti'ey crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadsm of snow. But ere it fall, that thundering baU Must wait for my command. " Poetry poured down...
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Europe: A Supplementary Geography

James Franklin Chamberlain, Arthur Henry Chamberlain - 1912 - 296 pages
...is clothed in spotless white. The poet Byron said of the mountain : — FIG. 110. — Mont Blanc. " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." For a long time no one succeeded in reaching the summit of this wonderful peak. In the year 1786 the...
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McEvoy Magazine, Volume 5

1912 - 632 pages
...wild birds hush their song The hills have evening's deepest glow Yet Leonard tarries long. 2. Mount Blanc is the monarch of mountains They crowned him...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Fiftheenlh WeekPrepositions. Definition, page 22. 1 . Abaft (sea term) , about, above, according to,...
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"Down Under,": A Year in Netherlands India, the Commonwealth, the Dominion

N. Maisondeau - 1912 - 448 pages
...upright like a dear, precise little French Dame of the old school. AORANGI.— MOUNT COOK. Mount Cook — "is the monarch of mountains They crowned him long...rocks in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." Aorangi is the charming, musical name which the Maoris once gave to the highest peak in their Ao-tea-roa....
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History of Riverside County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the ...

Elmer Wallace Holmes - 1912 - 844 pages
...hearts of all who gaze upon its majestic grandeur — "Our Mount is the monarch of mountains; They've crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." Such was the environment, such the scene that charmed the homeseekers and caused them here to cast...
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In Praise of Switzerland: Being the Alps in Prose and Verse

Harold Spender - 1912 - 316 pages
...Second Spirit MONT BLANC is the monarch of mountains: . Manfred' in They crown'd him long ago the Alps On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand; But ere it fall, that thundering ball...
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