| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...And where its wrecks like shntter'd mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses drees The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the...of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of preen access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...And where its wrecks like shatter'd mountains rise. And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses, drese The bones of Desolation's nakedness. Pass, till the...over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the gram is spread. 411 SHELLEY'S POETICAL WORKS. And gray walla moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds,... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...grave, the city, and the wilderness ; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds like slow flre upon a hoary brand ; And one keen... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...grave, the city, and the wilderness ; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary hrand ; And one keen... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - Europe - 1835 - 1350 pages
...an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. " And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary brand ; And one keen pyramid, with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who plann'd This... | |
| Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...feelingly. In the last verses of the elegy, he speaks of it again with the same feeling of its beauty. " The spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...laughing flowers along the grass is spread. •And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary brand; And one keen... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...rise And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses, dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness. Pass, rill the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access. Where, like an infnnt's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flower* along the grass iť spread And gray walls... | |
| Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...fanciful comparison of beauty personified to a jewel, and night to an Ethiop : thus Shelley, " And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand." Time here is first personified, and afterwards compared to slow fire. Again, says the... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...grave, the eity, and the wilderness : And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green aceess, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowersalong the grass isspread.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...grave, the city, and the wilderness : And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And Howering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass isspread. And grevwallsmoulderround, on which dull Time Feeils, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ;... | |
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