π The Princess
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And long we gazed, but satiated at length / Came to the ruins. High-arch'd and ivy-claspt, / Of finest Gothic, lighter than a fire, / Thro' one wide chasm of time and frost they gave / The park, the crowd, the house; but all within / The sward was trim as any garden lawn: [β¦]
And, after, feigning pique at what she call'd /
The raillery, or grotesque, or false sublimeβ /
Like one that wishes at a dance to change /
The musicβclapt her hands and cried for war, /
Or some grand fight to kill and make an end: [β¦]
Book Information
Publication Year
1847
Total Quotes
2