 | Robert Macoy - 1855 - 460 sidor
...breast to every storm ; and appears, in its utter desolation, to lament the downfall of its glories. The Niobe of nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty nrn within her withered hands, Whose noly dust was scattered long ago. Byron. " Noorth. Const, p. 31.... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 sidor
...a tear of pity roll, A. sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish'd not to control. 82. DESCRIPTION OF ROME. THE Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago : The Scipios'... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 sidor
...! 25 Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe1 of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; 1 Niobe, in Greek mythology, for her impious pride in saying that her children were superior to the... | |
 | 1926 - 780 sidor
...temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 sidor
...Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 70 2 The Niobe l etre of an antique song : But were some child of yours alive that time, You should live twice; in it wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;... | |
 | Camillo von Klenze - 1966 - 346 sidor
...becomes the spot where men have suffered. "The city of the soul" is now "The Niobe of Nations" and stands "childless and crownless in her voiceless woe, an empty urn within her withered hands," and the Tiber flows "through a marble wilderness." Subtler than Byron but less appealing to the imagination... | |
 | Camillo von Klenze - 1926 - 344 sidor
...becomes the spot where men have suffered. "The city of the soul" is now "The Niobe of Nations" and stands "childless and crownless in her voiceless woe, an empty urn within her withered hands," and the Tiber flows "through a marble wilderness." Subtler than Byron but less appealing to the imagination... | |
 | Frances Ellis Sabin - 1927 - 444 sidor
...arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight. LORD BYRON, Childe Harold, Canto IV, 161 The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe. LORD BYRON, Childe Harold, Canto IV, 79 II. IN WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS The Greeks in later times thought... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 sidor
...and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The...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; The... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - 1928 - 454 sidor
...and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago : The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The... | |
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The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios... 
