 Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its...  A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy - Page 258by John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1818 - 638 pages
...new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, jhrough the vale : — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like...the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes,... | |
 | 1843 - 636 pages
...which, downward worn and rent, With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent To the hroad column which rolls on, and shows . More like the fountain...the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes,... | |
 | DAVID WILLISON - 1818 - 572 pages
...profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce...the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering rtiorn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady... | |
 | 1818 - 498 pages
...rivers which flow gushingly, Wilh many windings, through the vale:— Look back! Lo ! where it comet like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like HOPE upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes,... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent To the brood column Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, 37 LXXII. Horribly beautiful! but on the verge,' From side to side , beneath the glittering morn, An iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, 38 Like Hope upon a death- bed, and, unworn Its steady... | |
 | Hugh William Williams - Greece - 1820 - 468 pages
...a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings thro' the vale : Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an...the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hqpe upon a death-bed, and, unworn NARNI. 875 Its... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 614 pages
...profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing tlie cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce...the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An iris sits amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes,... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...ECHOES FROM THE BACKWOODS. BY CAPTAIN LEVINGE. (CONCLUDED.) CHAP. XIII. UPPEK CANADA — NIAGARA. .... Look back! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity As...the verge From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and unworn Its steady eyes,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, LXXII. Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes,... | |
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