 | 1843 - Počet stránok 826
...Lone mother of dread empires, and control In their shut breasts their petty misery." » • » « " The Niobe of Nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe, An empty uni within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." • * » " Dost ihou flow,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - Počet stránok 320
...at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and erownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago; •The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless... | |
 | Thomas Allom, George Newenham Wright - 1843 - Počet stránok 372
...trellis-work, and their windows and doors being always either square or circular.* THE CITY OF NANKING. ' There she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe : An empty urn within her vrither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago." BYRON. THE poet's apostrophe to fallen Rome... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - Počet stránok 382
...giants ; where myriads of the slain have been left to rot and bleach under the torrid sun. CHAPTER II. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe." Childe Harold, cant. iv. " Quid salvum est si Roma perit ?" S. Hieron. Ep. xi. ad Ageruchiam. WHEN... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - Počet stránok 544
...the conquered. The Niobe of nations! there she stands,' Childless and crownless in her voiceless wo ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios1 tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers :... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - Počet stránok 564
...beneath her, and around her, all is a sepulchre,^ where the conqueror is entombed with the conquered. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless wo ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios'... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - Počet stránok 492
...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...urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantlcss Of... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1845 - Počet stránok 240
...paused, and turning toward the city, now dim in the smoky distance, bade it a long, last farewell. • " There she stands, Childless and crownless, in her...withered hands Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." Stopping to breakfast, about 12 o'clock, at a small inn, I wandered off in the fields. On returning,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - Počet stránok 540
...fame it be), This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee ! MOOBE. ROME. 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 ;... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - Počet stránok 642
...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...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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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... 
