A ruin—yet what ruin! from its mass
Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared.


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18) canto 4, st. 143

Lord Byron Quotes

A ruin—yet what ruin! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared.

A ruin—yet what ruin! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared.

A ruin—yet what ruin! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared.

A ruin—yet what ruin! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared.