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Richard Harris Barham

(Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.) Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

HEN Babylon the Great was in the zenith of her glory, adjoining the grand palace, and within the general enclosure, the Hanging Gardens were constructed by the king to gratify his wife Amytis, who, being a native of Media (she was the daughter of Astyages, the King of Media), desired to have some imitation of her native hills and forests. "Within the walls was raised a lofty mound, Where flowers and aromatic shrubs adorned The pensile garden. For Nebassar's queen, Fatigued with Babylonia's level plains, Sighed for her Median home, where Nature's hand