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
| William Russell - 1846 - 420 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...The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless * Pathos, repose, and solemnity, if united with grandeur, assume the orotund... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 312 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...Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crovvnless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 sider
...PCome and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way 0>r 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. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, (1) Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ;... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 sider
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye ! Whose agonies are cvili LXXIX. Ilie Niobo of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An... | |
| D. L. Carroll - 1846 - 386 sider
...which are deaf to every cry save that of an inexorable and fiendish cupidity! Poor, bleeding Africa! ! "The Niobe of nations— there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless wo." Her weeds of mourning have never been laid aside for centuries. Her cheeks have never been free... | |
| 1901 - 624 sider
...lesson which Byron applies to Rome: "The Niobe of Nations — there she stands, Crownless and childless in her voiceless woe, An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose sacred dust was scattered long ago!" XXXIX. It suggests the inevitable end of all empire, of all dominion... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 sider
...story of Niobe has furnished Byron with a fine illustration of the fallen condition of modern Rome: "The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless...The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now: The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers; dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness?... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 sider
...Dunciad, 2, 311; Lewis Morris, Niobe on Sipylus (Songs Unsung) ; Byron's noble stanza on fallen Rome, " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe," etc. (Childe Harold, 4, 79) ; WS Landor, Niobe ; Frederick Tennyson, Niobe. On Tantalus, see Lewis... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 sider
...story of Niobe has furnished Byron with a fine illustration of the fallen condition of modern Rome: The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless...The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now: The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers; dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness?... | |
| George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 sider
...and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye I Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at...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 ;... | |
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