.... The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. (4.100-106) Such seductive power leads Shelley to speculate that it may lay waste its own progeny,...

...presences. The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice. Frost and the Sun in scorn...city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual stream; vast pines are strewing Its destined path, or in...

...mind. The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. near his water-trough in Sicily "[o]na hot, hot day" (1. 2), the poet also iconically lengthens the...

...locale, The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun, in scorn...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. (Poetry, 11. 100—106) The figuration of the glacier's movement as serpentlike and predatory is reminiscent...

...being. The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn...city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual stream (ll. 100-9) The vision of Mont Blanc (vaguely reminiscent...

...Blanc (1816, lines 1o3-4) Shelley looked up at the mountain's glaciers, where to his vision Frost and Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled; dome, pyramid and pinnacle People have seen cities in ice for centuries. The curious thing is that the style of the architecture...

...Shelley, too, was sufficiently impressed to adopt some of Coleridge's imagery in the poem he had in hand: there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. . . . Below, vast caves Shine in the rushing torrents' restless gleam, Which from those secret chasms...

...Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of...city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual stream; vast pines are strewing Its destined path, or in...

...That this bridging is only partial, and must be constantly reconstructed, is indicated by the lines 'many a precipice,/ Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power/ Have piled', which, in a continuation of the poem's refusal to assign origins, places the source of the glaciers...

...The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slowly rolling on ; there, many a precipice. Frost, and the sun. in scorn...Have piled — dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of deatb distinct, with many a tower, And wall impregnable of beaming ice. Amidst all these thoughts of...