 | 1818 - 638 pages
...escape from it, and turn our eyes to the moonlight tliyi indistinct shadow of the ruins of the Coliseum. A ruin — yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel where the spoil could have appeared. Hath... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...seats crush'd — walls bow'd — And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loii<l: CXLIII. A ruin — yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls , palaces , half-cities , have been reared ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel where the spoil could have appeared. Hath... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...echoes strangely loud. CXLIII. A ruin — yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half -cities, have been rear'd; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel the spoil could have appear'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or but clear'd? Alas! developed, opens... | |
 | 1821 - 304 pages
...and her Ruin past Redemption's skill, The World, the same wide den— of thieves, or what ye will. A ruin— yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, -palaces,...skeleton ye pass. And marvel where the spoil could have appeared. Hath it indeed been plundered, or but cleared ? Alas ! developed, opens the decay. When the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...seats crush'd — walls bow'd — < And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud. CXLIII. f A ruin — yet what ruin! from its mass 'Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel where the spoil could have appeared, Hath... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-citics, have heen rear'd ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton je pass And marvel where the spoil could have appear'd. Hath it indeed heen plunder'd, or hut clear'd ? Alas ! developed, opens the deeay, When the colossal fahric's form... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...void — seats crusli'd — walls bow'd — And galleries, where my steps seem echoes itrangcly loud. A ruin — yet what ruin! from its mass Walls, palaces,...enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel where the spoil .mil, I have appear 'd. llnth it indeed been plunder'd,or hut i-lear'd' Alas! developed, opens the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...echoes -л ranjjely loud CXL1II. A nun — yet what rain ! from its mass Wall*, pa bee«, balf-cilie«, have been rear'd ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye...pass. And marvel where the spoil could have appear'd. lUiu it indeed been plunder'd, or but ciear'dT Alas' developed, opens the decay, Wb<;o the eolo*sal... | |
 | Selina Martin - Italy - 1828 - 418 pages
...its dower. A ruin — yet, what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half cities, have been reared ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass, And marvel where the spoil could have appeared. Hath it, indeed, been plundered, or but cleared? Alas ! developed, opens the decay, When... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...bow'd — And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely lond. CXI. III. A miu — yet what rnin! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been rear'd; "Yet oft the enormovs skeleton ye pass, And marvel where the spoil conld have appear'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd,... | |
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It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away. 
