 | William Ingraham Kip - Catacombs - 1854 - 252 pages
...and Dryad have long since fled, and the massive tomb of Coecilia Metella, " with two thousand yenra of ivy grown, The garland of Eternity, where 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... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - Catacombs - 1854 - 262 pages
...fled, and the massive tomb of Ccecilia Metella, " with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garlnnd of Eternity, where 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... | |
 | 1855 - 550 pages
...detracting from, the dignity of the tomb they enshrine, standing with half its battlements, alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity. I suppose no one ever — in contemplative musings rapt — visited this monument, the sublimest evidence... | |
 | Octavian Blewitt - 1856 - 428 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...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown ;— Whit was this tower of strength? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid?— A woman's... | |
 | J. R. Hutchinson - Alīgarh (India : District) - 1856 - 396 pages
...that the unfortunate Pudmontee was murdered alive in this column, like the Constance of Marmion — " What was this tower of strength ? Within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid? a woman's grave." Although we would much rather look upon this pillar as the shrine... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1857 - 570 pages
...fence of stone ; Such as an army's haffled strength delays, Standing with half its hattlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...eternity — where wave The green leaves, over all by Tim e o'trhrown, — What was this tower of strength? Within its cave What treasure lav so lucked,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 586 pages
...profanation to which it has been subjected in other ages. THE rOUXTAIl» ОГ EOERIA. " What was thii tower of strength ? Within its cave What treasure lay so locked, so hid? A woman's grave." Sir Walter Scott has said of the author of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," that " the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 612 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 eternity." The tumb of Cœcilia Metella is one of the most imposing objects of the Appian Way. Standing upon a... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 326 pages
...delays, Standing with half its battlements, alone — but only the poet's description invests it with its two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity,...wave The green leaves over all by Time o'erthrown ; or tells us that a woman's grave was the treasure locked within this proud memorial of a husband's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 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... | |
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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... 
