" The "wreathed friezes" contain "the viol, the violet, and the vine" but the "shrines and palaces and towers" "resemble nothing that is ours."
Some accused the author of this poem of plagiarizing part of Lydia Sigourney's poem "Musing Thoughts" published in her collection The Token. The "kingly halls" and "Babylon-like walls" are not lit by "rays from the holy heaven" and the "wilderness of glass" gives no hint that "each idol's damned eye" is bejeweled, though "a stir is in the air" that resembles "no earthly moans" suggest a "void within the filmy Heaven." The "wreathed friezes" contain "the viol, the violet, and the vine" but the "shrines and palaces and towers" "resemble nothing that is ours." The poem ends with "waves" that "now have a redder glow" and "Hell, rising from a thousand thrones" and it opens with the observation that "Lo! Death has reared himself a throne." For 10 points, name this Edgar Allen Poe poem about the titular underwater town.
Some accused the author of this poem of plagiarizing part of Lydia Sigourney's poem "Musing Thoughts" published in her collection The Token.
The {City} in the {Sea} [accept “The {Doomed City}” or “The {City} of {Sin}”]