 | 1818 - 638 pages
...escape from it, and turn our eyes to the moonlight tliyi indistinct shadow of the ruins of the Coliseum. A ruin — yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel where the spoil could have appeared. Hath... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...seats crush'd — walls bow'd — And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loii<l: 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 where the spoil could have appeared. Hath... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...echoes strangely 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 the spoil could have appear'd. Hath it indeed been plunder'd, or but clear'd? Alas! developed, opens... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...seats crush'd — walls bow'd — And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud. CXLIII. A ruin — yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces,...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 colossal... | |
 | 1821 - 304 pages
...and her Ruin past Redemption's skill, The World, the same wide den— of thieves, or what ye will. A ruin— yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, -palaces,...skeleton ye pass. And marvel where the spoil could have appeared. Hath it indeed been plundered, or but cleared ? Alas ! developed, opens the decay. When the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...seats crush'd — walls bow'd — < And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud. CXLIII. f A ruin — yet what ruin! from its mass 'Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel where the spoil could have appeared, Hath... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...crush'd—walls bow'd— And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud. CXLIII. A ruin—yet what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities,...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 colossal... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...arena void — seats crusli'd — walls bow'd — And galleries, where my steps seem echoes itrangcly loud. A ruin — yet what ruin! from its mass Walls,...enormous skeleton ye pass And marvel where the spoil .mil, I have appear 'd. llnth it indeed been plunder'd,or hut i-lear'd' Alas! developed, opens the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...echoes -л ranjjely loud CXL1II. A nun — yet what rain ! from its mass Wall*, pa bee«, balf-cilie«, have been rear'd ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye...pass. And marvel where the spoil could have appear'd. lUiu it indeed been plunder'd, or but ciear'dT Alas' developed, opens the decay, Wb<;o the eolo*sal... | |
 | Selina Martin - 1828 - 418 pages
...its dower. A ruin — yet, what ruin ! from its mass Walls, palaces, half cities, have been reared ; Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass, And marvel where the spoil could have appeared. Hath it, indeed, been plundered, or but cleared? Alas ! developed, opens the decay, When... | |
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Roman million's blame or praise Was death or life, the playthings of a crowd, My voice sounds much — and fall the stars' faint rays On the arena void — seats crush'd — walls bow'd — And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud. 
