 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 394 pages
...and cypress, and pine, and the neglected walks are overgrown with weeds. The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the I wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is... | |
 | 1845 - 670 pages
...and not wish to see the spot so touchingly described by Shelley. " The English burying-place is ?. green slope near the walls under the pyramidal tomb...the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees,... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 pages
...Rome, he spoke of it as " the most beautiful and solemn . cemetery he ever beheld," — and adds — "To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which... | |
 | 1847 - 672 pages
...visited Rome, he spoke of it as " the most beautiful and solemn cemetery he ever beheld ; " and adds, " To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which... | |
 | 1881 - 996 pages
...lingered about it, and when he first visited Rome he wrote : " It is the most solemn and beautiful cemetery I ever beheld to see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh when wo first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...and cypress, and pine, and the neglected walks are overgrown with weeds. The English burying-placc is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun sinning on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...Shelley had written a description to Peacock in the previous December. " The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To sec the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and... | |
 | 1881 - 762 pages
...poet's own description of this cemetery is touchingly appropriate : — " The English bury ing-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius, aud, as I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun shining on its... | |
 | 1883 - 420 pages
...the Protestant cemetery at Rome is like the translation of a Greek lyric: "The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Certius, and is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun shining... | |
 | Shelley Society - 1886 - 184 pages
...inhabit and pass over the spot which they have made sacred to eternity. . . . The English burying -place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...beheld. To see the sun shining on its bright grass — fret", when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews — and hear :l;e whispering of the wind... | |
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I wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women... 
