 | Félix Rabbe - 1888 - 330 pages
...Cestius which is known as the English burial-place, and where his own ashes were soon to rest. " It is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld," he writes, as though with a presentiment. '' To see the sun shining on its bright grass — fresh when... | |
 | 1889 - 1264 pages
...before Keats was buried there, Shelley wrote home of it in these words : — The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh when wo first visited it with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 192 pages
...Shelley described it thus in his letter to Mr. Peacock of 22 December, 1818. ' The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 174 pages
...Shelley described it thus in his letter to Mr. Peacock of 22 December, 1818. ' The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...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... | |
 | 1895 - 482 pages
...Protestant burial ground at Rome, of which, some months before, Shelley had written to a friend, " It is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld." After this sad event the Shelleys visited Leghorn and the drama of The Cenci was begun and finished... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 512 pages
...now Shelley) lies. Shelley speaks of it in a letter of December 22, rSi8: " The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we visited it, with autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 492 pages
...now Shelley) lies. Shelley speaks of it in a letter of December 22, 1818: "The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we visited it, with autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 496 pages
...now Shelley) lies. Shelley speaks of it in a letter of December 22, 1818 : "The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we visited it, with autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1899 - 784 pages
...English burying-placo is a green slope near the walls, under tho pyramidal tomb of Costing, and, as I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I...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 loaves of the trees... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats - 1900 - 294 pages
...writes thus of the cemetery : " The English bury ing-place is a green slope near the walls [of Rome] under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius, and is, I think,...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... | |
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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... 
