 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...  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Side 194av George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 311 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 sider
...thrones, and temples, ye, Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet, as fragile as our clay. The Ni'o-be of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless in her voiceless woo ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago : The Scipios'... | |
 | James Keatinge - 1920 - 364 sider
...passed over the fair plains of Italy, the whole land is desolate and the Eternal City stands alone : The Niobe of Nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe, and see the Church taming, civilising, and making Christians of these barbarians through the centuries,... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - 1921 - 392 sider
...pagan Rome, we realize how correct is the characterization of the latter in the Byronic lines : ' ' 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." CHAPTER II ROUND ABOUT ATHENS... | |
 | 1921 - 612 sider
...refers here to line LXXIX of the fourth canto of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," where Byron says of Rome: The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe. In the poem "Am Birkenbaum" the author relates how he translated Byron's Mazeppa on a hunting trip:... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1923 - 566 sider
...thrones 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 sider
...temples, Ye! 700 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered ' hands, 705 Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 sider
...thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our lt Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land....ROBERT BURNS TO A MOUSE ON TURNING UP HER NEST WITH urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 668 sider
...Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. VOICE QUALITY 101 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' tomb contains... | |
 | 1902 - 830 sider
...children you interest them. There is a great charm about these well-selected myths. LITERATURE. 1. " The Niobe of nations, there she stands Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe, An empty urn within her wi'hered hands. Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." From what p.iem is this extract... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1924 - 486 sider
...Ye 1 Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The N iobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust wasscatter'd long ago; The Scipios' toriib contains... | |
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