Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a... Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Sida 195efter George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1885Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1818 - 638 sidor
...and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of... | |
| 1818 - 502 sidor
...temples, ye f Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at your feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands. Childless...holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contain* no ashes now ; The very seputehrea lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost tbou flow.... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 sidor
...again < The Goddess lives in stone and fills The air around with beauty ; and, finally, to Rome. ' The Niobe of Nations ! there she stands, Childless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers ;... | |
| 1818 - 806 sidor
...temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 79. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of... | |
| 1818 - 574 sidor
...and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. "The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ;... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 sidor
...Ye ! "Whose agonies are evils of a day^ — . A world is at our feet, as fragile as our clay. LXX1X. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...urn within her withered hands , Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; 58 The very sepulchres lie tenantless... | |
| 1819 - 884 sidor
...temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a clay — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. , The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless...voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, \Vhose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 sidor
...temples , Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXX1X. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; l4... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 sidor
...without wounding the touch'd heart, Yet fare thee well — upon Soracte's ridge we part. LXXVIII. Oh Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; (*1)... | |
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