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" The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities... "
The works of ... lord Byron - Page 36
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819
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Belgium, the Rhine, Italy, Greece, and the Shores and Islands of ..., Volume 2

Belgium - 1851 - 478 pages
...the best establishment of the kind in Sicily. DRACHENFELS, AND THE ISLAND OF NONNENWORTH. HEINE. " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide...breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks that bear the Tine." BIKoX. DRACHENFELS, or Dragon Rock, is the most conspicuous, picturesque, and...
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A hand-book for travellers on the continent. [1st] [2 issues of the 16th and ...

John Murray (Firm), John Murray (publishers.) - 1850 - 676 pages
...precipices rise abruptly from the river side, crowned with a ruin. " The castled crag of Drachenfcls Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swell» Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...this was firm, and from a foreign shore Well to that heart might his these absent greetings pour ! i. The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide...banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose...
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Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts

534 pages
...^rape-plants. In passing the spot, one can hardly fail to remember the beautiful lines of Byron : — • , , ' The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide...vine, And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And f,elds which promise corn and wine, And spattered cities crowning these, "Whose far white walls along...
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A Step from the New World to the Old, and Back Again: With ..., Volume 2

Henry Philip Tappan - Europe - 1852 - 314 pages
...cultivation opening to view, with towns and villages-—such is a general description of this scenery. " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide...banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blo&somed trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scattered cities crowning these Whose...
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Belgium and the Rhine

David Bogue - Belgium - 1852 - 400 pages
...summit is crowned with a ruin, and commands a magnificent view. On the Drachenfels there is an inn. The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide...banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, .Whose...
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Murray's Handbook for Belgium and the Rhine: With Travelling Map

John Murray - Belgium - 1852 - 326 pages
...Rock), whose precipices rise abruptly from the river side, erowned with a ruin. " The castled erag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine,...banks which bear the vine ; And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And flelds which promise corn and wine, And seatter'd cities erowning these, Whose...
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Rambles in Europe: In a Series of Familiar Letters

Mark Trafton - Europe - 1852 - 478 pages
...built many of the castles in the year 368. Byron has immortalized this spot by those fine lines — " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide...breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which hear the vine." The lofty mountain called the Strombury, called also St. Petersburg, from a chapel...
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The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 7

Country life - 1852 - 618 pages
...Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, \Vhosc breast of walers brondly swells Between the banks that bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And fields which promise corn and wuie, And scnllered citit* crowning these, Whose tur white walls along them ghine. * • * The river...
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A hand-book for travellers on the continent. [1st] [2 issues of the 16th and ...

John Murray (Firm), John Murray (publishers.) - 1852 - 662 pages
...castled crag of Drachenfela Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadlv swells Between the banks which bear the vine ; And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise com ami wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose...
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