Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE COL DE BALM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poet's Biography First Line: Sunshine and silence on the col de balm Last Line: In the deep calm of love and everlasting light? Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) | ||||||||
SUNSHINE and silence on the Col de Balm! I stood above the mists, above the rush Of all the torrents, when one marvellous hush Filled God's great mountain temple, vast and calm, With hallelujah light, as seen through silent psalm: -- Crossed with one discord, only one. For Love Cried out, and would be heard. "DdIf ye were here, O friends, so far away and yet so near, Then were the anthem perfect!" And the cry Threaded the concords of that Alpine harmony. Not vain the same fond cry if first I stand Upon the mountain of our God, and long, Even in the glory, and with His new song Upon my lips, that you should come and share The bliss of heaven, imperfect still till all are there. Dear ones! shall it be mine to watch you come Up from the shadows and the valley mist, To tread the jacinth and the amethyst, To rest and sing upon the stormless height, In the deep calm of love and everlasting light? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS by HAYDEN CARRUTH GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU by HAYDEN CARRUTH CONSECRATION HYMN by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL I DID THIS FOR THEE! WHAT HAST THOU DONE FOR ME? by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO MY FATHER, 1860 by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL |
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