 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...loud. CXLIU. 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 where the spoil could nave appear'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or but clear'd? Alas ! developed, opens the decay, When... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...loud. 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 where the spoil could have appear'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or but clear'd ? Alas ! developed, opens the decay, When the... | |
 | 1864 - 462 pages
...existence. 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 where the spoil could have appear'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or but clear'd ? Alas ! developed, opens the decay, When the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 402 pages
...loud. 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...Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away. CXLIV. But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there ; When... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...lowt 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 where the spoil could have appear't!. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or but cleaVd ? Alas ! developed, opens the decay, When the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...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 where the spoil could have appear'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or but clear'd? Alas ! developed, opens the decay, When the... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...COLISEUM. Bnra. A EUIN — yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities have been reared ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass, And marvel...Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away. But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there ; When the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...m 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 where the spoil could have appear'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or but clear'd ? Alas ! develop'd, opens the decay, When the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...(.loud. A rain— yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been rcar'd; Tet orge Gordon N. Byron appcar'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or bat clear'dî Alas! developed, opene the deciiy, When the... | |
 | William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1868 - 228 pages
...lines ; — " A rain— yet what a ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaoes, half-cities have been reared; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel where the spoil could have appeared." In the centre of the arena stands a large black wooden cross, planted in the very soil which had once... | |
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It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away. 
