Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Schaffhausen | | The Jungfrau and the Fall of the Rhine near Schaffhausen | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | THE VIRGIN-MOUNTAIN, wearing like a queen | |
| A brilliant crown of everlasting snow, | |
| Sheds ruin from her sides; and men below | |
| Wonder that aught of aspect so serene | |
| Can link with desolation. Smooth and green, | 5 |
| And seeming, at a little distance, slow, | |
| The waters of the Rhine; but on they go, | |
| Fretting and whitening, keener and more keen; | |
| Till madness seizes on the whole wide flood, | |
| Turned to a fearful thing whose nostrils breathe | 10 |
| Blasts of tempestuous smoke,—wherewith he tries | |
| To hide himself, but only magnifies; | |
| And doth in more conspicuous torment writhe, | |
| Deafening the region in his ireful mood. | | | | |
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