Canto

 1     2|        river, tangled thorn, or marble block;~He swims the river,
 2     2|         and seemed not dight~Of marble or of brick; and in my eye~
 3     3|     From its sepulchral case of marble cries:~Since this has still
 4     7|        wrought~Upon the pitying marble to reply;~For thence, if
 5    10|    deemed~Of alabaster made, or marble rare,~Which to the rugged
 6    17|        upon the shore;~Of snowy marble was that cavern quarried,~
 7    19|      will bide the assay,~-- Of marble breast -- who has not now
 8    22|        prove how much the heavy marble weighs.~As old Atlantes
 9    26|    Encompassed round about with marble fair,~Shining and polished,
10    26|        name of these are on the marble read,~Some on their skirt,
11    26|   though figured plain~Upon the marble which that fountain cased:~
12    26|         things to come upon the marble fair~Made sculpture by a
13    33|          A holy temple, made of marble, swear,~With all its portals
14    36|   Within that thicket, of white marble wrought,~Is a proud monument,
15    36|  earthquake rock;~And from that marble monument proceeds~A voice,
16    36|       Had this fair monument of marble dight;~And I to Charon with
17    42|    bronze are some, and some of marble made.~The ornamented chambers
18    42|       building overlayed.~Eight marble statues (snowy was the grain),~
19    42|      And if we credit what that marble said,~Manto's so glorious
20    42|      names were carved upon the marble fair,~Then both unknown,
21    42|    train.~"Regard not (said the marble) is she wear~A haughty port;
22    42| Declares in fine the sculptured marble's lore)~The fairest of emprizes
23    42|      her statue to sustain,~The marble all those other names revealed.~
24    43|    staid,~More motionless, than marble shafts, endure:~Then Avarice
25    44|        iron take.~My heart like marble is, or thing least prone~