 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. 3. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bow-shot...birds of night, amidst A grove which springs through levelled battlements, And twines its roots with the imperial hearths, Ivy usurps the laurel's place... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Jome cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appear'd levcll'd battlement». And twines its roots with the imperial hearths, [vy usurps the laurel's place... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...time-worn breach Appear'd to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bowshot — Where the Cœears dwelt, And dwell the tuneless birds of night, amidst...battlements, And twines its roots with the imperial hearths. [vy usurps the laurel's place of growth ; — But the gladiators' bloody Circus stands, A noble wreck... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...time-worn breach Appcar'd to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bowshot — AVhere the Cœsars dwelt, And dwell the tuneless birds of night, amidst A grove Which springs through levell'd battlement», And twines its roots with the imperial hearths. Ivy usurps the laurel's place of growth... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appear'd to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bowshot. Where the Csesars dwelt, And dwell the tuneless birds of night, amidst A grove which springs through levell'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 pages
...beyond the time-worn breach Appear'd to SKirt the horizon, vet they stood Within a bow-shot—where the Caesars dwelt, And dwell the tuneless birds of...battlements And twines its roots with the imperial hearths, [vy usurps the laurel's place of growth ;— But the gladiator's bloody Circus stands, A noble wreck... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 344 pages
...Appeared to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Bath of Caracalla, Within a bowshot where the Cssars dwelt, And dwell the tuneless birds of night, amidst A grove which springs through level'd battlements, And twines its roots with the imperial hearths. Ivy usnrps the laurel's place... | |
 | Octavian Blewitt - 1856 - 428 pages
...birds of night, amidst Л grove which springs through levell'd battlements, And twines itsroots \vitb the imperial hearths ; Ivy usurps the laurel's place of growth ; — But the gladiator's bloody Circus stands, A noble wreck in ruinons perfection! While Cesar's chambers, and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pages
...fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. 8. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bow-shot....birds of night, amidst A grove which springs through levelled battlements. And twines its roots wilh the imperial hearths, Ivy usurps the laurel's place... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...dwelt, And dwell the tuneless hirds of night, amidst A grove which springs through levell'd hattlements, And twines its roots with the imperial hearths, Ivy...the laurel's place of growth ; But the gladiators' hloody cireus stands A nohle wreck in ruinous perfection! While Caesar's chamhers and the Augustan... | |
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Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon ; yet they stood Within a bow-shot. 
