 | 1839 - 536 pàgines
...the queen of Europe, the conqueress of the world. — The ' lone mother of dead empires,' " The Niohe of nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe !" Time has been, that her senators were princes of the earth ; that pleading nations came to receive... | |
 | 1840 - 382 pàgines
...city. This ought to form one of the most interesting shrines for the visits of the pilgrims ; but— " The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." One sarcophagus, that of Scipio Barbatus, has been removed to the Vatican museum, and forms but an... | |
 | Diary - 1840 - 616 pàgines
...transient gleam from the light of other days—a memory of the past— a dream of former triumphs. D2 ' The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe!' She silently appeals to every heart for sympathy, and awakens a chord of deep and tender feeling in... | |
 | sir Henry Delmé (fict.name.) - 1841 - 524 pàgines
...still—still—still were all these! still as death! CHAPTER IV. ROME. " Woe uuto us, not her; for she sleeps well." " The Niobe of nations'. there she stands, Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago. The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pàgines
...Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobc of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;... | |
 | Joshua Horner - 1841 - 162 pàgines
...feet, as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations I there she stands, Childless and crownless, in the voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Sciplo's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers :... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pàgines
...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 empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; (2)... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pàgines
...temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 1ЛМХ. ield ! where man May gaze on ghastly trophies of the...blush for those who conquer'd on that plain ; Here wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; б... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 pàgines
...eleven centuries, submitted too, to the barbarian. •Niebuhr's History of Rome, vol. II. p. 35. " The Niobe of nations ; there she stands, Childless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers ;... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 432 pàgines
...must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers :... | |
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The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios... 
