Classic Poem

Magnet of Ice! white-eyed, supreme, immense!
Thy grand imperial whitenesses of awe
Blur all my songful thought, and potent, draw
Into thy bosom's glooms my wandering sense;

Rapt by the sheen diaphanous, intense
Of thy white virgin beauty, free of flaw.
Thy stiff cold tears of 'sdain that never thaw
All promise death as choicest recompense

To me, if I but cling to thee and climb
Thy giant breasts of frosts, thy flanks of rime,
Or scale thy treacherous steeps to topmost peaks
And brave thy avalanche's dreaded flow!
Then shall I find what all my body seeks,
A tomb sublime in seas of endless snow!

Magnet of ice! white-eyed, supreme, immense!
Thy grand imperial whitenesses of awe
Blur all my songful thought, and potent, draw
Into thy bosom's glooms my wandering sense;
Rapt by the sheen diaphanous, intense
Of thy white virgin beauty, free of flaw.
Thy stiff cold tears of 'sdain that never thaw
All promise death as choicest recompense
To me, if I but cling to thee and climb
Thy giant breasts of frost, thy flanks of rime,
Or scale thy treacherous steeps to topmost peaks
And brave thy avalanche's dreaded flow!
Then shall I find what all my body seeks,
A tomb sublime in seas of endless snow!