Oh, Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, 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... The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Sida 152efter George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1851 - 494 sidor
...Pie V., tom. ii. p. 321. J Ap. Bzoviua Epist. ad Episcop. Egitanens. ap. id. i. 122. § Carm. Sec. " Oh Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee." But be it so. All are not so moved. To many is even this great vision closed by obstacles that seem... | |
| Ruins - 1852 - 464 sidor
...been sympathized in by thousands, as they gazed on modern Rome, and thought of what once she was : — "Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans...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,... | |
| Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 sidor
...broods over the " eternal city," and shades in gloom her glories. "How are the mighty fallen 1" *' Oh Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans...mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance 1 Come and see The cypress, hear the owl,... | |
| M.B. Bateham and S.D. Harris - 1852 - 396 sidor
...were of a mighty tree whose «ciors had found root in all the earth. Well might the poet sing — " O. Rome, my country, city of the soul ! The orphans of...heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires." Here I saw the birth of architectural art in England, and we owe to her all the refinements that give... | |
| M.B. Bateham and S.D. Harris - 1852 - 396 sidor
...found root in all the earth. Well might the poet sing— '• 0. Rome, my country, city of the »oui ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires." Here I saw the birth of architectural art in England, and we owe to her all the refinements that give... | |
| James Henry - 1853 - 616 sidor
...passages, gives us the reverse of this fine simile; also applied to Rome: "0 Rome! my country! cily of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to...control In their shut hreasts their petty misery. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 sidor
...Awakening without wounding the tnuch'd heart, Yel fare thee well — upon Snracte's ridge we part. LXXVm. ts to dull life, in this our state Of mortal bondage, by these iheir shut breasts their petty misery. What arc our woes and sufferance ? Come and •<•« The cypress,... | |
| James Henry - 1853 - 638 sidor
...passages, gives us the reverse of this fine simile; also applied to Rome: "0 Rome! my country! cily of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to...mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. The Niobe of nations! there she slands Childless and crownless, in her... | |
| James Henry - 1853 - 626 sidor
...passages, gives us the. reverse of this fine simile; aiso applied to Rome: "0 Rome! my country! city of Ihe soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,...mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. The Kiobe of nations! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her... | |
| James Henry - 1853 - 626 sidor
...of the happiest of his passages, gives us the reverse of this fine simile; also applied to Rome: "0 Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thec, Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. The Niobe... | |
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