THE COLUMN INTENDED BY BUONAPARTE FOR A TRIUMPHAL EDIFICE IN MILAN, NOW LYING BY THE WAYSIDE IN THE SIMPLON PASS AMBITION, following down this far-famed slope Her pioneer, the snow-dissolving sun, While clarions prate of kingdoms to be won, Perchance, in future ages, here may stop; Taught to mistrust her flattering horoscope By admonition from this prostrate stone! Memento uninscribed of pride o'erthrown; Vanity's hieroglyphic; a choice trope In Fortune's rhetoric. Daughter of the rock, Rest where thy course was stayed by Power Divine! The soul transported sees, from hint of thine, Crimes which the great Avenger's hand provoke, Hears combats whistling o'er the ensanguined heath: What groans! what shrieks! what quietness in death! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BELLS OF LYNN; HEARD AT NAHANT by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I DREAM I'M LEAVING by MARGARET AHO TO ONE WHO ASKS by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS GROWING OLD by KARLE WILSON BAKER THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC by ROBERT BROWNING INDEPENDENCE by CHARLES CHURCHILL LITTLE LAC GRENIER (GREN-YAY) by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND |