 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 way O'er steps of broken thrones and...  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 357edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Henry Southgate - 1871 - 760 pages
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 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken throne? and temples, Ye I Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crpwnless, in her voiceless woe ; An... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. " Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 332 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Yc ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our elay. The Niobe of natious ! there she stands,51 Childless and erowniess, in her voiceless woe ; An... | |
 | Thomas Pope (canon of Castleknock.) - 1874 - 458 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples ! ye Whose agonies are evils of a day ! — A world is at our feet as fragile as your clay". HE following statistics were taken some years since, during my sojourn in Rome, at the... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Yel 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and empires, 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn... | |
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