“The foam globes round come riding fast” [“The Source of the Arveron”] [poem]
The foam globes round come riding fast 1
Like snow upon the eddies cast
Forth from his cold & silent tomb
Forth flies the river from the gloom 2
The bars that echoed to his roaring
System generated line number
5

Those icy bars have burst before him
And now his chafed surges see
Bound high in laughing liberty
Oh frigidly the glacier pale
Bears broadly to the nether vale
System generated line number
10

78

Right in his cliffy shivered side
Yawneth a chasm high & wide
And from the portal arched & strong
Leap Springs gladsome forth the Arveron
Seems it an ancient forteresse a
System generated line number
15

All shattered in its mightiness
The higher towers all rent & riven
The battlements all downward driven b
And that its form thou now couldst trace
Froze to an icy wilderness. c
System generated line number
20

And that its portal vast & old
All arched by the crisp ice cold.
And through whose chasms of paly green
The shivery sunshine shot between
Or trembling with a meteor light
System generated line number
25

Or dancing in the billows bright
Smiling aetherially through
The ghostlights of the crystal blue.