Rome ! my country ! city of the soul! 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... Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt. (Harrow ed.). - Էջ 120George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| John Frost - 1845 - 458 էջ
...sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish'd not to control. 212 THE AMERICAN SPEAKER. 82. DESCRIPTION OF ROME. THE Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago : The Scipios'... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 310 էջ
...a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone, and all is gray. ROME. OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans...crownless, 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... | |
| William Russell - 1846 - 420 էջ
...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...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; — The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 312 էջ
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 էջ
...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...crownless in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now: The... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 էջ
...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 էջ
...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...crownless in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now: The... | |
| George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 էջ
...and control In their shut breaste 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 I Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of... | |
| David C. Miller - 1993 - 356 էջ
...country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires. . . . The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe.13 The other that Italy represents is simultaneously obj ect of desire and point of origin or "mother"... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 էջ
...misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way 700 O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye! Whose...stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; 705 An empty urn within her wither'd hands, LXXIX The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very... | |
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