Source: More Than Human (1953), Chapter 1, p. 60
“Lone upon a mountain, the pine-trees wailing round him,
Lone upon a mountain the Grecian youth is laid;
Sleep, mystic sleep, for many a year has bound him,
Yet his beauty, like a statue's pale and fair, is undecay'd.
When will he awaken?”
The Monthly Magazine
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Lone upon a mountain, the pine-trees wailing round him,
Lone upon a mountain the Grecian youth is laid;
Sleep, mystic…" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 785
English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“The lone couch of his everlasting sleep.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816), line 57
Source: The Eagle, 1851, http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/eagle.htm
“A deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows.”
XXIII. 343–344 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Cecil Frances Alexander
(1818–1895) British hymn-writer and poet
Hymn: The Burial of Moses http://www.bethanyipc.org.sg/poems/bulletin080113.htm
“There’s too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear.”
Richard Le Gallienne
(1866–1947) British writer
A Ballad of too much Beauty.
In Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird, Ur III Period (21st century BCE). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#
Context: Lugalbanda lies idle in the mountains, in the faraway places; he has ventured into the Zabu mountains. No mother is with him to offer advice, no father is with him to talk to him. No one is with him whom he knows, whom he values, no confidant is there to talk to him. In his heart he speaks to himself: "I shall treat the bird as befits him, I shall treat Anzud as befits him. I shall greet his wife affectionately. I shall seat Anzud's wife and Anzud's child at a banquet. An will fetch Ninguena for me from her mountain home -- the expert woman who redounds to her mother's credit, the expert who redounds to her mother's credit. Her fermenting-vat is of green lapis lazuli, her beer cask is of refined silver and of gold. If she stands by the beer, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is gladness; as cupbearer she mixes the beer, never wearying as she walks back and forth, Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips; may she make my beer-serving perfect. When the bird has drunk the beer and is happy, when Anzud has drunk the beer and is happy, he can help me find the place to which the troops of Unug are going, Anzud can put me on the track of my brothers."
Lyman Heath
(1804–1870) American musician
The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).