 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 temples, Ye!  The works, of ... lord Byron - Stran 36avtor: George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | D. L. Carroll - 1846 - 386 strani
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 strani
...their petty raUcry. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod to the printer, with a request to LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands. * Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An... | |
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...Will add to theirs a name of fear, That tyranny will quake to hear ! BYRON'S Giaour. 18. The Niohe of Nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 19. — While the tree... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1847 - 414 strani
...God's chosen work. While, of the former, existing in her melancholy ruins, we may sav with the poet: "The Niobe of nations, there she stands Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe;" we must say of the latter, that, instead of being childless and crownless, she reckons now, after centuries... | |
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...shout aloud for ]oy ! " Fear : — " With noiseless foot she treads the marble floor." Grief: — " The Niobe of nations! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe .' " " Oh ! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers... | |
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...Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and columns, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day; A world is at your feel, a? fragile as your clay." Summoned by these voices, or seeking alleviation from private... | |
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...Come and see The cypress, hear tne owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and columns, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day; A world is at your feet, as fragile us your clay." Summoned by these voices, or seeking alleviation from private... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 strani
...shout aloud for joy ! " Fear : — " With noiseless foot she treads the marble floor." Grief: — " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe .' " " Oh ! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1849 - 560 strani
...Méditerranée. La Villa a quelquefois servi de ferme : elle appartient au roi de Naples. ITALY. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe." BYRON. THE bridge called the Ponte Sisto was constructed during the pontificate of Sixtus IV., from... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 strani
...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance 7 Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples,...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn... | |
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