 | Gething - 1838 - 426 pàgines
...fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the palace of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain, Which hid in their... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pàgines
...clay. To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To Beauty? Ah! no: she forgets The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that...laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? Alas! 'tis in vain: Who... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 374 pàgines
...she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed ] Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the Shroud. l76 _ STANZAS. To Riches ? Alas,... | |
 | 1841 - 686 pàgines
...the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud 1 Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Richest Alas ! 'tis in rain; Who hid, in their... | |
 | 1843 - 686 pàgines
...beauty it held, or the tint that it wore. Shall we build to the Purple of Pride, The trappings that dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside ;...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain. Who hid, in their... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 188 pàgines
...clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To Beauty ] Ah ! no ; she forgets The charms that she wielded before : Nor knows the foul worm, that...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. -- . m (•* ' \ • r.rd v|< / I v.'-^Xo -. • *... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pàgines
...which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which 'dizen the proud ? Alas I they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, Bat the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas! 'tis in vain ; Who hid,... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pàgines
...the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?j Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pàgines
...she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas! 'tis in vain, Who hid,... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pàgines
...worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, and the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To riches ? alas ! 'tis in vain, Who hid, in their... | |
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In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To BEAUTY ? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore... 
