column (n.)
- arcade
- arch
- army
- article
- atlas
- baluster
- balustrade
- banister
- barbican
- barrel
- barrow
- base
- battalion
- battery
- belfry
- bole
- book
- brace
- brass
- brigade
- bust
- buttress
- cadre
- cairn
- campanile
- caravan
- caryatid
- cask
- cavalcade
- cenotaph
- chapter
- clause
- cohort
- colonnade
- colossus
- company
- corps
- cortege
- cromlech
- cross
- cup
- cupola
- cylinder
- dado
- derrick
- detachment
- detail
- die
- division
- dolmen
- dome
- drum
- fascicle
- file
- flyover
- funeral
- garrison
- grave
- gravestone
- headstone
- inscription
- installment
- jack
- lantern
- legion
- lighthouse
- line
- marker
- mast
- mausoleum
- megalith
- memento
- memorial
- menhir
- minaret
- monolith
- monument
- motorcade
- mound
- necrology
- obelisk
- obituary
- organization
- outfit
- pagoda
- parade
- paragraph
- part
- passage
- pedestal
- pedicel
- peduncle
- peristyle
- phalanx
- phrase
- pier
- pilaster
- pile
- piling
- pillar
- pinnacle
- pipe
- plaque
- platoon
- plinth
- pole
- pomp
- portico
- posse
- post
- prize
- procession
- promenade
- prop
- pylon
- pyramid
- rank
- regiment
- reliquary
- remembrance
- review
- ribbon
- roll
- roller
- rouleau
- section
- serial
- shaft
- shore
- shrine
- skyscraper
- socle
- spire
- squad
- squadron
- staff
- stalk
- stanchion
- stand
- standard
- standpipe
- stay
- steeple
- stela
- stem
- stone
- stream
- string
- stupa
- subbase
- surbase
- tablet
- telamon
- testimonial
- tomb
- tombstone
- tope
- tour
- tower
- train
- troop
- trophy
- trunk
- tube
- turret
- unit
- upright
- verse
- volume
- wing
Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit!
Tully was not so eloquent as thou,
Thou nameless column with the buried base.
I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free,
And give them voice and utterance once again.
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
