 | Joshua Horner - 1841 - 162 Seiten
...Temple and tower went down, nor left a site :— Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say " here was, or is," where all is doubly night >. Cypress and ivy, weed and wall-flower grown Matted and massed together, hillocks heaped On what... | |
 | Stephens - 1841 - 534 Seiten
...energies of his inquiring mind. Who shall read them ? " Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say ' here was or is,' where all is doubly night'" In conclusion, I will barely remark, that if this is the place referred to by the Spanish historian... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 Seiten
...the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, " here was, or is," where all is doubly night ? LXXXI. The double night of ages, and of her, Night's daughter, Ignorance, hath wrapp'd and wrap All round us ; we but feel our way to err : The ocean hath his chart, the stars their... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 Seiten
...Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : — Chaos of ruins ! who shall trace the void. O'er the he wish to slay ; Some half-form'd threat in utterance there had ? LXXXT. The double night of ages, and of her, Sicht'* daughter, Ignorance, hath wrapt and wrap All... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 Seiten
...Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : — Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, " here was, or is," where all is doubly night 1 THE OCEATf. THEHF. is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonply shore, There... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 Seiten
...wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : Chaos of ruins ! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light. And say, "here was, or is," where all is doubly night? The ragged minstrel gives but utterance to the general feeling, as he chaunts in the depopulated streets... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 Seiten
...Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : — Chaos of ruins ! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, " Here...Ignorance, hath wrapt and wrap All round us ; we but feel our way to err : The ocean hath his chart, the stars their map, And Knowledge spreads them on... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 Seiten
...Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: — Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, "Here was, or is," where all is doubly night? Alas, the lofty city! and alas The trebly hundred triumphs! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 Seiten
...Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : — Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, " here was, or is," where all is doubly night 7 THE OCEAN. THERE is a pleasure in the pathless woods. There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : — Chaos of ruins ! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, " here was, or is," where all is doubly night? BYRON. THE SEA NETTLE. Now is it pleasant in the summer-eve, When a broad shore retiring waters leave,... | |
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Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is, 
