 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...control lu their .Mint breasts their putty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and sec ` e cvili of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. Ilie Niobo of nations ! there... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...must turn to thee. Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty raUcry. wonder what the devil possessed* me. 1 LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands. * Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...art, and heroic in history. Voice» from her broken arches and her mouldering walls seem to say, " 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... | |
 | 1847 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1849 - 576 pages
...preparation in the characteristics of the era we have passed. CHAPTER XI. CONQUEST AND CONDITION OF ITALY. " Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples! " BYRON, Childe Harold, IT. 78. "They are no more than links in.tho chain winding round the world."... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1850 - 750 pages
...orphans of the heart must turn tothee. Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands,"1 Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pages
...ilead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance 7 Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your...— 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... | |
 | 1850 - 418 pages
...anil control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and sc« The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones nnd temples. Yet Wliuse agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...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?...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...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...— 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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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... 
