Montenvers Viaduct in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie (France)

Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his deep course? So long he seems to pause
On thy bald awful head, O sovran Blanc!
The Arve and Arveiron at thy base
Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form!
Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines,
How silently! Around thee and above
Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black,
An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it,
As with a wedge! But when I look again,
It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine,
Thy habitation from eternity!

...

Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni

Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Bridge over the Arve River in Chamonix, Haute Savoie (France)

Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky,

Mont Blanc appears,—still, snowy, and serene—

Its subject mountains their unearthly forms

Pile around it, ice and rock; broad vales between

Of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps,

Blue as the overhanging heaven, that spread

And wind among the accumulated steeps;

Mont Blanc; from the Chamonix valley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bridge over the Nant Blanc Creek in Chamonix, Haute Savoie (France)

Avec grand bruit et grand fracas
Un Torrent tombait des montagnes :
Tout fuyait devant lui ; l'horreur suivait ses pas;
Il faisait trembler les campagnes.
Nul voyageur n'osait passer

Beginning of Le Torrent et la Rivière

Jean de Fonteine