 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...afford, The revel, the langh and the jeer? Ah! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affeetion and Love ? Ah, no! They have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit above: Friends, brothers,... | |
 | 1876 - 508 pages
...the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are...as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveler here. Shall we build to Affection and Love? Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...dark coifin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, — The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are...as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveler here. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah, no ! they have withered and died, Or fled... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 304 pages
...on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the langh, and the jeer? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love?... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 pages
...dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah l here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all...as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveler here. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah no l they have withered and died, Or fled with... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...plentiful lx>ard ! liut the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, Aud none but the worm is a reveler here. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah, no ! they have withered and died, Or (led with the spirit above ; Friends, brothel's, and sisters are laid side by side, Yet noue have saluted,... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pages
...on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are...we build to Affection and Love? Ah no ! they have wither'd and died, Or fled with the spirit above — • Friends, brothers, and sisters are laid side... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the langh, and the jeer? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are...cheer, : And none but the worm is a reveller here. _ I ; Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...pleasures which Mirth can iiiluiil, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer? Ah 1 here is a plentiful lx>ard 1 But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer,...reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love 1 Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit above. Friends, brothers, and sisters... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the langh, and the jeer? Ah 1 here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all...mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm IB a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or... | |
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To the pleasures which Mirth can afford ; — The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ; But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. 
