Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JULIA ALPINULA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a lone wall a lonelier column rears Last Line: And held within their urn one mind, one heart, one dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Avenches, Switzerland | ||||||||
BY a lone wall a lonelier column rears A gray and grief-worn aspect of old days; 'T is the last remnant of the wreck of years, And looks as with the wild bewildered gaze Of one to stone converted by amaze, Yet still with consciousness; and there it stands Making a marvel that it not decays, When the coeval pride of human hands, Levelled Aventicum, hath strewed her subject lands. And there -- O, sweet and sacred be the name! -- Julia -- the daughter, the devoted -- gave Her youth to heaven; her heart, beneath a claim Nearest to heaven's, broke o'er a father's grave. Justice is sworn 'gainst tears, and hers would crave The life she lived in; but the judge was just, And then she died on him she could not save. Their tomb was simple, and without a bust, And held within their urn one mind, one heart, one dust. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRAGMENT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME by GEORGE GORDON BYRON AN ODE TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON BEPPO: A VENETIAN STORY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON WE SAT DOWN AND WEPT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON CHURCHILL'S GRAVE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DARKNESS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DON JUAN: CANTO 1 by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION] by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ELEGY ON THYRZA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON EPIGRAM ON MY WEDDING DAY: TO PENELOPE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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