...God's chosen work. While, of the former, existing in her melancholy ruins, we may sav with the poet: "The Niobe of nations, there she stands Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe;" we must say of the latter, that, instead of being childless and crownless, she reckons now, after centuries...

...lesson which Byron applies to Rome: "The Niobe of Nations — there she stands, Crownless and childless in her voiceless woe, An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose sacred dust was scattered long ago!" XXXIX. It suggests the inevitable end of all empire, of all dominion...

...Dunciad, 2, 311; Lewis Morris, Niobe on Sipylus (Songs Unsung) ; Byron's noble stanza on fallen Rome, " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe," etc. (Childe Harold, 4, 79) ; WS Landor, Niobe ; Frederick Tennyson, Niobe. On Tantalus, see Lewis...

...and temples, Ye I Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. ou, if Laura hadbeen Petrarch's wife, He would have...sonnets all his life ? IX. All tragedies are finish wither 'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;...

...country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires. . . . The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe.13 The other that Italy represents is simultaneously obj ect of desire and point of origin or "mother"...

...irregular cavalry, author of many sporting novels 70 (p. 247) from Byron's Childe Harold, Canto IV: 'The Niobe of Nations! there she stands, / Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe.' 72 (p. 266) Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836) French physicist and mathematician 73 (p. 2 7 1 ) What a...

...thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day 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; 705 An empty urn within her wither'd hands, LXXIX The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very...

...are living together! Oh! what a privilege to reside in the City of the Ceasars ' — albeit she is "Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe; An...withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." 4 The Eternal City! the cradle, and Pantheon of the Arts! God grant I may see it! Ah! how the Titans...

...The mother to whom the speaker could not say good-bye in canto 1 returns, but her children are dead: "The Niobe of nations! there she stands / Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe" (4.703-4). Niobe is not barren, of course, but a mother of great fecundity whose pride leads to the...