| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | IV. The Subject of Babylon Continued (I.) | | By Edmund Ollier (1827–1886) |
| | | A WILDERNESS of beauty! a domain | |
| Of visions and stupendous thoughts in stone,— | |
| The sculptured dream of some enchanter’s brain,— | |
| There did I see, all sunning in their own | |
| Splendor and warmth; a thousand palaces, | 5 |
| Where tower looked out on tower; all overgrown | |
| With pictured deeds, and coiling traceries, | |
| And monstrous shapes in strange conjunction met, | |
| The idol phantoms of an age long past, | |
| In midst of which the wingéd Bull was set; | 10 |
| And I saw temples of enormous size, | |
| Silent yet thronged; and pyramids that cast | |
| Shadows upon each golden-peaked pavilion, | |
| And on the column flushed with azure and vermilion. | | | | |
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