 The garland forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Caesar's head ; When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then in this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread.  Italy, illustrated and described - Page 871864Full view - About this book
 | Cecil Headlam - Languedoc (France) - 1912 - 414 pages
...crowd — A ruin — yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half cities, have been reared 1 ... When the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch,...stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night breeze waves along the air ... Then in this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away. CXLIV cha@ 2 1290 And the low night-breeze waves along the air The garland forest, which the gray walls wear Like... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...plundered, or but cleared? Alas! developed, opens the decay, 1284 When the colossal fabric's form is neared: It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which...When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, 1290 And the low night-breeze waves along the air The garland-forest which the gray walls wear, Like... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...form is neared : It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all, years, But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost...When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, 1290 And the low night-breeze waves along the air The garland-forest which the gray walls wear, Like... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away. CXLIV But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost...When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, 1290 And the low night-breeze waves along the air The garland forest, which the gray walls wear Like... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...faint rays On the arena void — seats crush'd, walls bow'd — And galleries, where my steps seem mine A ruin — yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces,...loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along 1 1 if air The garland-forest, which the gray walls wear. Like laurels on the bald first Csesar's head... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...plundered, or but cleared? Alas! developed, opens the decay, When the colossal fabric's form is neared : 15 It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which...When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, 20 And the low night-breeze waves along the air The garland forest, which the gray walls wear, Like... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...plundered, or but cleared t Alas ! developed, opens the decay, When the colossal fabric's form is neared ; It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which...there ; When the stars twinkle through the loops of tune, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The garland-forest, which the gray walls wear, Like... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - English poetry - 1928 - 582 pages
...not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away. CXLIV But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost...time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The garland- forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Csesar's head; When the... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 200 pages
...sides of the same coin. And the moonlight and starlight take over where the vegetation leaves off: when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch,...When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, (4.144) the "ruined battlement" (4.129) turns into a "magic circle" (4.144). The scene painted by eighteenth-century... | |
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