 | 1817 - 506 strani
...ah no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore. For...proud ? Alas! they are all laid aside — And here's neitherdress nor adornment allow'd But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud ! To Riches... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 strani
...? ah no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For...Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither drese nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud t To riches ?... | |
 | 1819 - 402 strani
...no ! — she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For...build to the purple of Pride — The trappings which diz'n the proud; Alas ! they are all laid aside — And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd... | |
 | 1819 - 728 strani
...stanzas is given to connect the others with the original. The pencil of »ome future HOCA»TH. shal, I P Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornments allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | Varieties - 1819 - 774 strani
...!— she forgets " The charms which she wielded before— " Nor knows the foul worm that he frets " The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, «...the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. * These lines were written in Richmond Church-yard, Yorkshire, by the late HERBERT KNOWLES, of Canterbury,... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - 444 strani
...? Ah no — she forgets The charms which she wielded before, Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. * The following original commentary was written in Kichmoncl church-yard, by HERBERT KNOWLES, who died,... | |
 | 1819 - 754 strani
...? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before j Nor knows the foul worm that he fret* The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For...the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. • The last of these stanzas is given to connect the others with the original. The preceding personages... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 strani
...Beauty? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore For...the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 4. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all... | |
 | 1819 - 596 strani
...Beauty? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore For...the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 4. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud f Alas ! they are all... | |
 | 1819 - 500 strani
...? ah no I she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it won. Shall we build to the purple of pride ; The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas! they are all... | |
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In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To BEAUTY ? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore... 
