 And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's 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, 440 A light of laughing flowers along...  The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 27by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877Full view - About this book
 | S. Russell Forbes - 1882 - 384 pages
...and surmounted by a cross. The view from the top is very fine. Close by is the PROTESTANT CEMETERY. " The spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access. " The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. " It might... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...Who waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. XLIX. Go thou to Rome,— at once the paradise, * . . The...copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, tilI the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1884 - 564 pages
...contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. Go thou to Rome,—at once the Paradise; The grave, the city, and the wilderness;...And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, 435 And flowering weeds and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1884 - 626 pages
...once sincere, generous, and affectionate, though terribly ominous of his own impending fate : — ' Go thou to Rome — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness — * * « • * Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access,... | |
 | Maria M. Grant - 1885 - 604 pages
...then; yes, let us go there." " And once so far," said Adrian, " modern though the thought may be — " 'The spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green ascent. ' " "Oh, the cemetery — Keats, Shelley, the Cor Cordium, and the 'name writ in water,' and... | |
 | 1889 - 592 pages
...with the superbly-built and magnificently-situated city. But Shelley's words were in our thoughts — "Go thou to Rome — at once the paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness ;" and until we had obeyed them we could not rest even in Genoa. The ride was one never to be forgotten ;... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pages
...thought Who waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. Go thou to Rome,— at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness ; 1 See Greek motto prefixed to the poem. And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 192 pages
...thought Who waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. 49Go thou to Rome, — at once the paradise, The grave,...copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, 5 Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 174 pages
...waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. 49Go thou-to Rome, — at once the paradise, The grave, the city,...copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, 5 S"i *;11 th£— Spirit nf fhp r,pnfc-«HTg1l lead" Thy_jootst£ps-to a _ WrTeTe^Jike an—infant's... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 246 pages
...thought Who waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. XLIX Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave,...wilderness ; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains And flowering weeds and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit... | |
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