 | Elizabeth Peake - Europe - 1874 - 756 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. " But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tombed in a palace? How lived, — how loved,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Rome (Italy) - 1874 - 516 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...time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength 1 within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — a woman's grave. " But who was she, the... | |
 | India - 1874 - 328 pages
...stone Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with all its battlements — alone. ****** What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so locked, so hid 1 A tyrant's grave." LETTER XI. 133 " The cruelties of this sovereign (Muhammed) were witnessed by... | |
 | George Gaskell - Algeria - 1875 - 368 pages
...where the road joins that leading to Cherchell (Julia Caesarea). CHAPTER XVII. COLEAH TO CHERCHELL. What was this tower of strength ? Within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? A woman's grave. But who was she, the lady of the dead ? ChUde Harold, Canto III.... | |
 | English poetry - 1877 - 360 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. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tombed in a palace ? Was she chaste and fair... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877 - 234 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.2 But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tombed in a palace ? Was she chaste and fair... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 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...cave) What treasure lay so locked, so hid ? — A woman's grave. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tombed in a palace ? Was she chaste and fair... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877 - 192 pages
...of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, 885 Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...What was this tower of strength ? within its cave 890 What treasure lay so locked, so hid ? — A woman's grave. C. But who was she, the lady of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 286 pages
...fence of stoue, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'ertlirown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so locked, so... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 pages
...burying place at Rome of Csecilia Metella, with its fortress-like character is sufficiently amazing. ' What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so locked, so hid? — a woman's grave!' — Childe Harold. But it would take many such monuments, piled on end, to make up... | |
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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... 
