Subject
In the quoted passage from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-1818), the poet George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) describes the tomb of Cecilia Metella, admired during a visit to Rome. One of his outings was along the Via Appia, where he was struck by the robustness of the round tower, which, shrouded in two thousand years of ivy, still stood firmly in the face of eternity (Canto IV, stanza XCIX).
Placement
Harvard University Library
Credits
Google Books, Harvard University Library
References
The Works of Lord Byron in five volumes. Vol. II, London 1823, p. 136.
