 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1911 - 252 pages
...sailing pinions. — Upon such a shrine What are our petty griefs ? — let me not number mine. CVII Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower grown Matted and massed together, hillocks heaped On what were chambers, arch crushed, column strown In fragments, choked up vaults, and frescos... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1912 - 416 pages
...to it by reciting, with great emphasis and effect, the following well-known and beautiful lines : " Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower, grown Matted...column strown In fragments, choked up vaults, and frescoes steep'd In subterranean damps, where the owl peep'd, Deeming it midnight : — Temples, baths,... | |
 | Clement King Shorter - 1913 - 548 pages
...wondering peasant, who must have thought him ' loco,' the following well-known and beautiful lines : — ' Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower, grown, Matted...column strown In fragments, choked up vaults, and frescoes steep'd In subterranean damps, where the owl peep'd, Deeming it midnight ; Temples, baths,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1913 - 274 pages
...griefs? — let me not number mine. cvn Cypress and .ivy, weed and wallflower grown Matted and mass'd together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch crush'd, column strown In fragments, choked-up vaults and frescoes steep'd In subterranean damps, where the owl peep'd, Deeming it midnight:... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pages
...— let me not number mine. evil. 955 Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower grown Matted and mass'd together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch...steep'd In subterranean damps where the owl peep'd, w0 Deeming it midnight : — Temples, baths, or halls ? Pronounce who can ; for all that Learning reap'd... | |
 | Emmanuel Rodocanachi - 1920 - 250 pages
...chantés3 : Cypress and ùy, weed and wallflower grown Matted and mass'4 togelher, hillocks heap'd Onwhat were chambers, arch crush'd, column strown In fragments,...frescos steep'd In subterranean damps, where the owl pcep'd Deeming it midnight... Behold the Impcrial Mount; 'lis thus the mightyfalls. Cyprès et lierre,... | |
 | 1885 - 632 pages
...description as — * Cic. de Offic. ii. 25. Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower grown Matted and mass'd together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch crush'd, column strown In fragments, choked-up vaults, and frescos steep' d In subterranean damps, where the owl peep'd, Deeming it midnight... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...pinions. - Upon such a shrine cv cvn 955 Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower grown Matted and mass'd together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch...steep'd In subterranean damps, where the owl peep'd, 960 Deeming it midnight: - Temples, baths, or halls? Pronounce who can; for all that Learning reap'd... | |
 | 1879 - 592 pages
...sketching the crumbling corridors where ruled and revelled the lords of the world. Cyprus and ivy, wind and wallflower grown Matted and massed together, hillocks...chambers, arch crush'd, column strown In fragments, choked-up vaults, and frescoes steep'd In subterranean damps, where the owl peep'd, Deeming it midnight.... | |
 | Hugh Johnston - 1881 - 492 pages
...Juno Sospita, of Minerva, a temple of moonlight and a shrine of Vesta — ruins, nothing but ruins. " Cypress and ivy, weed and wall-flower grown Matted and massed together, hillocks heap'd Bl On what were chambers, arch crushed, columns strewn In fragments, choked-np vaults, and frescoes... | |
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Deeming it midnight : — Temples, baths, or halls ? Pronounce who can ; for all that Learning reap'd From her research hath been, that these are walls — Behold the Imperial Mount ! 'tis thus the mighty falls. 
