ICE built, ice bound, and ice bounded, Such cold seas of silence! such room! Such snow-light, such sea-light, confounded With thunders that smite like a doom! Such grandeur! such glory! such gloom! Hear that boom! Hear that deep distant boom Of an avalanche hurled Down this unfinished world! Ice seas! and ice summits! ice spaces In splendor of white, as God's throne! Ice worlds to the pole! and ice places Untracked, and unnamed, and unknown! Hear that boom! Hear the grinding, the groan Of the ice-gods in pain! Hear the moan Of yon ice mountain hurled Down this unfinished world. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHRISTMAS CAROL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR CITIZEN OF THE WORLD by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER THE BRIDGE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE LOST CHORD by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER A VINDICATION by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE BAKER'S VAN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |