Poems, containing The city of the deadLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 - 172 Seiten |
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... fire , On Gornou's mount I take my lofty stand , And watch the day spring on the bright'ning sand ; Till at my feet the wondrous city lies , Bathed in the flood - beams of the burning skies . Yes ! those bare rocks in headlong ruin hurl ...
... fire , On Gornou's mount I take my lofty stand , And watch the day spring on the bright'ning sand ; Till at my feet the wondrous city lies , Bathed in the flood - beams of the burning skies . Yes ! those bare rocks in headlong ruin hurl ...
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... Thebes to be devastated by fire , that when he was watching the destructive progress of the flames , struck by the grandeur and beauty of the obelisks , as Each stately tower , though wreck'd and riven now , CITY OF THE DEAD . 15.
... Thebes to be devastated by fire , that when he was watching the destructive progress of the flames , struck by the grandeur and beauty of the obelisks , as Each stately tower , though wreck'd and riven now , CITY OF THE DEAD . 15.
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... fire 2 had wasted there . It has been aptly styled " the valley of the shadow of death . " The royal sepulchres are chiefly in a valley , which bears the Arabic name of Bab , or Biban - el - Melook- " Gate of kings . " " Bab , in Coptic ...
... fire 2 had wasted there . It has been aptly styled " the valley of the shadow of death . " The royal sepulchres are chiefly in a valley , which bears the Arabic name of Bab , or Biban - el - Melook- " Gate of kings . " " Bab , in Coptic ...
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... fire that lights the midnight gloom With loathsome fuel from the rifled tomb . Farewell , polluted shrines , abandon'd halls , Where Desolation dwells in vacant walls ! the rest of the party trod the once reverenced corpse into ...
... fire that lights the midnight gloom With loathsome fuel from the rifled tomb . Farewell , polluted shrines , abandon'd halls , Where Desolation dwells in vacant walls ! the rest of the party trod the once reverenced corpse into ...
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... fire - flies are lighting the orange - tree bowers , While meteor - like insects glide through each dark bough . Deeply blushes the face of the emerald ocean ; The storms are asleep in their caverns below ; And the green waves that ...
... fire - flies are lighting the orange - tree bowers , While meteor - like insects glide through each dark bough . Deeply blushes the face of the emerald ocean ; The storms are asleep in their caverns below ; And the green waves that ...
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