 | Hygiene - 1850 - 342 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...its cave What treasure lay so locked, so hid ? — a woman's grave ! ' In the fine poem from which this stanza is taken there are no more delightful expressions... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. c. Dut who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace?... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lo-Jb'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. But who was she, the lady of the dead, TombM in a palace? Was... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - Italy - 1853 - 394 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. But who was she, 1he lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace ? Was... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English fiction - 1853 - 502 pages
...an army's beffled strength delays, Standing with half its bettlements alone, And with two thonsand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where...was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasnre lay so lock'd,so hid ?—A woman's grave. Bnt who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...of strength? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd,so hid?—A woman's grave. c. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace ? Was... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...o'erthrown; — What was this tower of strength ? within its care What treasure lay so loek'd, BO hid ? — A woman's grave. 0. But who was she. the lady of the... | |
 | Bible stories, English - 1854 - 818 pages
...age. The tower-like sepulchre of Caecilia Metella — now " Standing, with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown " — is of a somewhat earlier date ; but the huge pyramid of Caius Cestins, still perfect, though... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - Catacombs - 1854 - 282 pages
...Egeria, from which the Nymph and Dryad have long since fled, and the massive tomb of Ccacilia Metella, " with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown." The Eternal city was sleeping in the distance, the still air brought no murmur of its population, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, ron Byron timo o'crthrown ;— What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd,... | |
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There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone. Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave... 
