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" VAIN it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With Man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. "
Sappho, a tragedy [in verse] by Stella - Page 50
by Estelle Anna B. Lewis - 1876
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Collections from the Greek Anthology

Robert Bland - English poetry - 1833 - 468 pages
...violet. V. (2, 3.) FROM SCATTERED FRAGMENTS. M. VAIN it is for those to weep Who repose in Death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. IBYCUS.f THIS poet, a native of Rhegium in Italy, flourished in the time of Croesus, from the fifty-fourth...
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Poems Original and Translated, Volume 1

John Herman Merivale - English poetry - 1838 - 392 pages
...and honour shuts the door. FROM STESICHORUS. VAIN it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. FROM CLEOBULUS. ON THE TOMB OF MIDAS. SCULPTURED in brass, a virgin bright, on Midas' tomb I stand....
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...gems, rich rows of purple violet. FRAGMENT. VAIN it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With Man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. JSSOP. [About 620 B. CJ A PHHTOIAN and of servile origin. — After having passed by sale from master...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 568 pages
...of purple violet. FRAGMENT. VAIÎT it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. Witli Man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. Ж80Р. [About ft» В. С ] A PBBTOIAIT and of servile origin. — After having passed by Bale from...
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The Poets and the Poetry of the Ancient Greeks: With an Historical ...

Abraham Mills - Greek literature - 1858 - 498 pages
...gems, rich rows of purple violet. A FRAGMENT. Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. Alcaeus was a native of Mitylene, in the island of Lesbos, and was born 020 AC His family was influential...
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Sappho: A Tragedy, in Five Acts

Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis - American drama - 1878 - 186 pages
...swell your lyres, Rapture calls, and wine inspires. UMPIRE Stesichorus, the Dorian, next. * STESICHOBUS Vain it is for us to weep That we all in death must...joy and pleasure, Fill the goblet without measure. UMPIEE Theognis of Magara. THEOGNIS Ah, me ! Alike o'er youth and age I sigh — Impending youth and...
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A Manual of Classical Literature: Comprising Biographical and Critical ...

Charles Morris - Authors, Greek - 1880 - 442 pages
...purple violet." — Merivale. A FRAGMENT. " Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory." — Langlwrne. ALCJS'US. FLOURISHED ABOUT 610 BC This poet, one of the most famous of the lyric writers...
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A New Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations: Comprising ...

Hugh Percy Jones - Quotations - 1900 - 570 pages
...o'er thy beauties here. 'A i^i . —Alenandcr. Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in Death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and (jlory. — Jtffi iraff. Self-will, by itself, In one who is not wise is less than nought. — Plumptrc....
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A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations, Comprising Idioms ...

Hugh Percy Jones - 1908 - 562 pages
...To wander o'er thy beauties here. — Moore. Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in Death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. — Mcrivale. Self-will, by itself, In one who is not wise is less than nought. — Plumptre. Noble...
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Half-hours with the Best Foreign Authors, Volume 1

Charles Morris - Anthologies - 1888 - 536 pages
...of purple violet. MERIVALE. THE END OF MAN. Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. LAxanoRNE. [Half a century later, about 610 BC, flourished a poet of higher note in the lyric ranks,...
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