His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of... The Influence of Milton on English Poetry - Page 232by Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 722 pagesFull view - About this book
| 696 pages
...upon other men to do so. Shelley has finely depicted a meet home for the Spirit of Solitude: — " The eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er...on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Doth Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceal. Among the ruined temples there Stupendous columns... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 854 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...Sculptured on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 834 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...Sculptured on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...Obedient to high thoughts has visited The awful niins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and B.tlbee, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers...Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills 5t ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE. Conceals. Among the ruined temples there,... | |
| 1866 - 496 pages
...rustles in the brake, suspend men Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...Sculptured on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
| History - 1869 - 730 pages
...the history of his species after the Dispersion ; or find, if he will, the very counterpart of — " The fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids,...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert lulls Conceals." For the western hemisphere can boast of an Egypt... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 664 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste AVhere stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, sus]iend Her timid steps, to gate upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbee, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts has...Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns, and wild images Of... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
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