...our thoughts of him as one whose melodies had adorned and hidden the coming bulk of death. Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the...Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of langhing flowers along the grass is spread. Another characteristic common to all these poems Is what...

...Rome from about 1825. 4 Margin entry : at Gibson's studio. See 1 Apr. 32. 6 Adonais, xlix: Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness. be acknowledged, and let the observance of its law be considered the very first essential to perfection...

...Shelley, in three stanzas of his elegy for Keats that James greatly loved, who had taught them how "the Spirit of the spot shall lead / Thy footsteps to a slope of green access" where "shelter" could be found from "the world's bitter wind."1 In r 85 6 Charles Eliot Norton, finding the...

...waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. 49 Go thou to Rome, - at once the Paradise, The grave, the city,...rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an...

...waged contention with their time's decay. And of the past are all that cannot pass away. XLIX Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wildemess; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses...

...waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. 49 Go thou to Rome - at once the Paradise, The grave, the city,...spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access0 Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is...

...waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away, 49 Go thou to Rome - at once the Paradise. The grave. the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shanered mountains rise. And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness...

...That ages, empires, and the religions there Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought . . . Go thou to Rome - at once the Paradise, the grave, the city and the wilderness. 2o Canto IV, verse LXXVIII. 21 These themes are explored in an unpublished paper given by Dr Jennifer...

...engraven on his tombstone : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water," February 24, 1821,' " Go thcnt to Rome— at once the paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness ; Atixi where ils wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering wx<uis, and fragrant copses dress...

...beauty and decay" (55—6); but in the end he locates it (and himself) in die Protestant cemetery in "Rome, at once the Paradise, / The grave, the city, and the wilderness" (433-4) - not an allegorical palace, but a real place of graves and houses, piazzas and fields, a site...