Explore "The Ravaged Villa (Poems from Timoleon)" by Herman Melville on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
In shards the sylvan vases lie, / Their links of dance undone, / And brambles wither by thy brim, / Choked fountain of the sun!
The spider in the laurel spins, / The weed exiles the flower: / And, flung to kiln, Apollo's bust / Makes lime for Mammon's tower.