 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 your way O'er steps of broken thrones and...  Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature - Side 167redigert av - 1910Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Diary - 1840 - 616 sider
...transient gleam from the light of other days—a memory of the past— a dream of former triumphs. D2 ' The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe!' She silently appeals to every heart for sympathy, and awakens a chord of deep and tender feeling in... | |
 | Joshua Horner - 1841 - 162 sider
...Come and see The cypress, hear the owlf and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day,— A world Is...feet, as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations I there she stands, Childless and crownless, in the voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 sider
...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 day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobc of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within... | |
 | sir Henry Delmé (fict.name.) - 1841 - 524 sider
...still—still—still were all these! still as death! CHAPTER IV. ROME. " Woe uuto us, not her; for she sleeps well." " 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; The... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 sider
...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 day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. (Byron's Don Juan.) I. To DOUBT, 2. QUESTION. 1. S3e5nmfeln , in S^eifeí äicl;en; 2. bfjtretfcln,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 sider
...world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, ( 1 ) Childless and 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 ; (2)... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 sider
...Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, I dare to scan, There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain, — Morat ! the proud, the 1ЛМХ. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, * Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ;... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - 616 sider
...Come and see The eypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples ! ye, Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter''! long ago ; 246 The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now;... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 sider
...eleven centuries, submitted too, to the barbarian. •Niebuhr's History of Rome, vol. II. p. 35. " 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 ;... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 432 sider
...must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. 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 :... | |
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