| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 546 |
| George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788–1824) (continued) |
| 5654 |
| O Rome! my country! city of the soul! |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 78. |
| 5655 |
| The Niobe of nations! there she stands. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 79. |
| 5656 |
| Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 98. |
| 5657 |
| Heaven gives its favourites—early death. 1 |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 102. |
| 5658 |
| History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 108. |
| 5659 |
| Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 109. |
| 5660 |
| Tully was not so eloquent as thou, Thou nameless column with the buried base. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 110. |
| 5661 |
| Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 115. |
| 5662 |
| The nympholepsy of some fond despair. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 115. |
| 5663 |
| Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 115. |
| 5664 |
| Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 120. |
| 5665 |
| I see before me the gladiator lie. |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 140. |
| 5666 |
| There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher’d to make a Roman holiday! |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 141. |
| 5667 |
| “While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls—the world.” 2 |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 145. |
| Note 1. See Wordsworth, Quotation 136. [back] |
| Note 2. Literally the exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth century. [back] |
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