Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot... The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 429by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 708 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...he can lend,— they borrow not Glpry from those who made the world their prey; And he is ga inert V h i j { \ 9 XLIX. Co thou to Rome,— at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...the ravage they have wrought; For such as he can lend they borrow not Glory from those who made the world their prey; And he is gathered to the kings...the past are all that cannot pass away. Go thou to Rome,t—at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness ; And where its wrecks like... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 460 pages
...the ravage they have wrought ; For such as he can lend they borrow not Glory from those who made the world their prey ; And he is gathered to the kings...nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile over the dead, A light... | |
| John Keese, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 306 pages
...there sleep, unwrecked by dreams, beneath a green coverlet, prankt with wild violets and daisies. " Go thou to Rome, — at once the paradise, The grave,...nakedness, Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...feelingly. In the last verses of the elegy, he speaks of it again with the same feeling of its beauty: — "Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave,...nakedness, Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Tby footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...contention with their times' decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. Go thon to Borne, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the...nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 384 pages
...prey. And he is gathered to the kings of thought, Who urged contention with their time's decay, A nd of the past are all that cannot pass away. Go thou...mountains rise, And flowering weeds and fragrant copses deck The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the spirit of the spot, shall lead Thy footsteps... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...Rome,—at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shotter'd mountains rise And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses,...nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access. Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light... | |
| 1847 - 672 pages
...at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness ; And where its wrecks like shatter'd mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant...nakedness, Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile over the dead, A light... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 324 pages
...memory of one who had restored Grecian mythology to its domain of song, this place is consecrated. " Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave,...nakedness ; Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light... | |
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