 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pàgines
...? ah, no ! — she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul worm that \x frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore,...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? r.ias ! 'tis in vain ; Who hid, in their... | |
 | Joseph James Neave - 1899 - 336 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,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 544 pàgines
...xvii. 4. ]V /TETHINKS it is good to be here ; ••**• If thou wilt, let us build. But for whom ? But the shadows of eve that encompass the gloom, The...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 :... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pàgines
...YORKSHIRE. METHIXKS it is good to be here ; If thou wilt, let us build, — but for whom? Nor Klins long winding-sheet and the. fringe of the shroud. To Riches? alas ! 'tis in vain ; Who hid, in their... | |
 | Laurie Magnus, Cecil Headlam - 1903 - 390 pàgines
...encompass with gloom The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb. Shall we build to Ambition ? Ah, no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away ; For see, they...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 ;... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 890 pàgines
...adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride? To the trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are...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 I... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 896 pàgines
...adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride? To the trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are...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 vai n... | |
 | Harrison Patillo Griffith - 1911 - 280 pàgines
...we build to Ambition ? Ah ! no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away; For see, they would pin him below Tn a small narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To...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... | |
 | 1820 - 494 pàgines
...yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness .1 held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to th« purple of Pride— The trappings which dizen the proud...laid aside — And here's neither dress nor adornment nllow'd, But the long winding sheet and the fringe of theibroud! To Riches ' Alas ! His In vain—... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland - 1867 - 514 pàgines
...cold 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. 397 To riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain... | |
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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... 
