...More graceful than her own. His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old Athens and Tyre, and Balbec, and...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,...

...More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,...

...More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old Athens and Tyre, and Balbec, and the wate Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes,...

...steps, to gaze upon a form His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethopia in her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,...

...the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of straiige, Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia in her...

...Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old: Athens and Tyre and Balbcc, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids. . . . Among the ruined temples there. Stupendous columns, and wild Images Of more than man, where marble...

...Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange, Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals. Among...columns, and wild images Of more than man, where marble demons watch The Zodiac's brazen mystery, and dead men Hang their mute thoughts on the mute walls around,...

...awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbcc, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, and the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids,...sphynx, Dark /Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals." What sound and majesty in the lines describing the windings of the vast Caucasian cavern ! what dignity...

...Milton it would be difficult to select many passages to surpass the following — " The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, and the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange...

...Shelley's Alastor, for — His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old ; Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jaspar tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples...