 | David Bogue - Belgium - 1852 - 400 pages
...castles breathing stern farewells From grey but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells. And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping...were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles passed below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust... | |
 | Mark Trafton - Europe - 1852 - 478 pages
...but leafy walls, where ruin grimly dwells." " And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, bnt unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save...were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles passed below : But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust... | |
 | Willard C. George - Europe - 1852 - 266 pages
...communion with them ; a growing acquaintance with them, makes them intelligent and communicative ; they stand, " as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping...crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud." What mortal power can adequately describe them ? It cannot be done, any more than a just notion of... | |
 | 1852 - 454 pages
...unworthily a position they are wholly unfitted to occupy. Too noble to pander to a morhid appetite, "they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping, to the baser crowd," until, at last, broken by disappointment, disheartened by the ingratitude of a thoughtless world, many... | |
 | John Murray - Belgium - 1852 - 326 pages
...castles breathing stern farewells From grey but leafy walls, where Ruin grcenly dwells. '* And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser erowd, All tenantlese, save to the erannying wind, Or holding dark communion witji the eloud. There... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells. XL VII. And there they 853 proui Banners on 1 1 i :;ii . and battles pass'd below ; But they who fought are ma bloody shroud,... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1853 - 340 pages
...traditional reminiscences of their history are met with as we are borne along its course, " And there they stand as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantleaa save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark, communion with the crowd — There was a day... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1853 - 324 pages
...baser crowd, All tenantieas save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the crowdThere was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high and batties passed below, But they who fought are in a blcody shroud. And those which waved are ahrediesa... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...breathing stem farewells From gay but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells. XLVII. And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping...who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now. And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. XL VIII. Beneath... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwelli. XLVII. And there they THKKF. is one very singular prophecy concerning Venice...is already on the wing, will not reckon n century waved arc shrcdlcss dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. XLVin. Beneath... | |
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And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. 
