 | Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 pages
...empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance 1 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 wo ; An empty... | |
 | William Russell - 1853 - 432 pages
...empires ! and control In their shut breasts, their petty misery. What are our woes and suffciiance ? — 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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1853 - 362 pages
...orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires I and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples I ye, Whose agonies are evils of a day — Л world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 pages
...petty misery. What are onr woes and snfferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod yonr way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at onr feet as fragile as onr clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands,* ' Childless and crownless,... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1853 - 440 pages
...INCREASE AC 499-137. CONTINUED. VOL. II. «..!- -Jl BOOK III. CONTINUED. CHAPTER XVI. CONQUEST OP ITALY. " Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples! " BYRON, Childe Harold, iv. 78. " They are no more than links in the chain winding round the world."... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1853 - 440 pages
...AC 499-137. CONTINUED. VOL. II. BOOK III. CONTINUED. CHAPTER XVI. CONQUEST OF ITALY. " Come aml sec The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples! " Bvnox, OitUe Hat-oil. iv. 78. "They are no more than links in the cbuin winding round the world."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...and •<•« The cypress, hear the owl, and ploo your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temple«, Ye . Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile ax our clay. LZXIX. TheNiobe of nations! there she «lande Childless and rrownlen, in her voiceless... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 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. HOME. 37 The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...orphans of the heart must turn to thce, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo, An empty... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come smd see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er...day—- A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, 1 Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An... | |
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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... 
