 | Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 pągines
...skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it bore. Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. 154 LINES WRITTEN IN A CHUBCHYARD.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pągines
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 340 pągines
...we build to Ambition ? Ah ! no, Affrighted he shrinketh away ; For see ! they would pin him below To a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 't is in vain, Who hid in their... | |
 | Esq. J. B. (Barrister-at-Law.), John Bill - 1850 - 586 pągines
...narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles, a peer and a prey. To Beauty ? oh no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before,...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 Tain, Who... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pągines
...; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore, For tine smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall...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... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pągines
...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 Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain — "Who hid, in their turn have been hid — The treasures are squander'd again — And here in the grave are all metals... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pągines
...hut yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothuess it held or the tint which it wore. Shall we huild to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen...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... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pągines
...foul 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...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 !... | |
 | Lays - 1862 - 406 pągines
...a peer and a prey. To Beauty ? Ah, no ! — she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Kor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but...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... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pągines
...which, but yesterday, fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it won-. 264 Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches l 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... 
