Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. | | | | The Ruin |
From the Chinese |
| | | THESE 1 grey stones have rung with mirth and lordly carousel: | |
| Here proud kings mingled Poetry and ruddy wine. | |
| All hath pass’d long ago; nought but this ruin abideth, | |
| Sadly in eyeless trance gazing upon the river. | |
| Wou’dst thou know who here visiteth, dwelleth and singeth also, | 5 |
| Ask the swallows flying from sunny-wall’d Italy. | |
| | | Note 1. From the Chinese. The Ruin. Greek elegiac metre in ‘Stone’s Prosody’. R. Bridges. Poems, p. 446. [back] | | |
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