 | 1845 - 670 Seiten
...its bright grass, fresh, when we visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees, which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is sfirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women and young people who were buried... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 Seiten
...its bright grass, fresh, when we first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown...were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep." About a year before his own death, the place had acquired an additional interest in his eyes, for there... | |
 | 1847 - 672 Seiten
...its bright grass, fresh, when we first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown...were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep." About a year before his own death, the place had acquired an additional interest in his eyes ; for... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 384 Seiten
...delight to see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh with dews, and hear the whispering of the winds among the leaves of the trees, which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius !" A plain slab, overhung with parasite plants, and shrubs and flowers, contains the venerated name... | |
 | 1881 - 996 Seiten
...its bright grass, fresh when wo first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees, which have overgrown the tomb of Cestins, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs — mostly of... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 Seiten
...bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown...there, one might, if one were to die, desire the sleep th«y seem to sleep. Such is the human mind, and so it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion.... | |
 | Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 80 Seiten
...sod, and where he said : " To see the sun shining on its bright grass, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees, which have overgrown...earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women and young children, who, buried there, we might, if we were to die, desire a sleep they seem to sleep." All this... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 Seiten
...bright grass, fresh when we first visited it with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among- the leaves of the trees which have overgrown...were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep. And in the well-known preface to Adona'is he says: — John Keats died at Rome, of a consumption, in... | |
 | 1878 - 800 Seiten
...grass — fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, — and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown...it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion." And elsewhere: "It might make one in love with death to think that one should be buried in so eweet... | |
 | 1878 - 794 Seiten
...grass — fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, — and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown...it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion." And elsewhere: "It might make one in love with death to think that one should, be buried in so sweet... | |
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To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm... 
