 To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.  The African Repository - Stran 2541834Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1869 - 646 strani
...again ; And hero in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall wo build to Affection and Love ? Ah, no ! they havs withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 strani
...; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin-lid. 25 To the pleasures which Mirth can afford — The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. 30 Shall we build to Affection and Love? Ah, no! they have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 strani
...again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford — The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah, no ! they have wither'd and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 strani
...again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark cofHn-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford. The revel,...as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveler here. Shall we build to Affection and Love? Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with... | |
 | George Etell Sargent - 1872 - 380 strani
...; And here, in the grave, are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin-lid. To the Pleasures which mirth can afford? The revel,...laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board 1 •• But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.... | |
 | 1872 - 710 strani
...And here in the grave ore all the metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffinlid. ife ! 'tis the still water faileth ; Idleness ever dcspaircth, bcwaileth ; [eth 1 here is a plentiful board 1 But tho guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 strani
...metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coftin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth ca.i afford — The revel, the laugh, and the jeer! Ah...here is a plentiful board : But the guests are all unite as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller hare. Shall we build to Ambition... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 strani
...which Mirth con afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer? Ah ! here id a plentiful board ! But th« een, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang : — she would have been A very n Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah no ! they have wither'd and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Sacred harp - 1874 - 174 strani
...And here, in the grave, are all metals forbid. Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love? Ah, no ! They have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 strani
...again; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...is a plentiful board! But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love... | |
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