Lyric Poem · Life
Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanc
There is a voice, not understood by all,
Sent from these desert-caves. It is the roar
Of the rent ice-cliff which the sunbeams call,
Plunging into the vale — it is the blast
Descending on the pines — the torrents pour...
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“Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanc” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/cancelled-passage-of-mont-blanc
Quick facts
- Poem
- Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanc
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 5 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Life, Short
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 5 lines · one 5-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 10-syllable lines (pentameter length).
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBCancelled Passage of Mont Blanc by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 b3eebda9035ca595…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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