Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod... Revue canadienne - Page 136edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
| 1818 - 638 pages
...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples,...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn... | |
| England - 1818 - 762 pages
...their petty misery. What are oar woe< and sutteranee ? Come and ice The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples,...day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 79. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and cruwnless, in her voiceless woe; An empty... | |
| 1818 - 806 pages
...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples,...day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 79. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress , hear the owl, and pled your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples,.... A world is at our feet, as fragile as our clay. LXX1X. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless , in her voiceless woe ; An... | |
| 1819 - 884 pages
...their petty misery. What are our woei and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a clay — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. , The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...cypress , hear the owl , and plod your way O'er steps of broken tltrones and temples , Ye .' JJ'Jiose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, CJiilciless and crownless , in her voiceless woe; An empty... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...their petty misery. What are our woes and suilerance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples,...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Kiobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An... | |
| 1821 - 746 pages
...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod o s $ \ s qts t 6[s Z s q qMs s:s U o sHftq ? U at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownlcss,... | |
| German literature - 1822 - 534 pages
...petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, bear the owl , and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn... | |
| |