 Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.  The works of lord Byron - Page 49by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...instinct, back to thee ! MOOBE. ROME. THE Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF ROME. THE Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago. The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now;...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | Theology - 1845 - 818 pages
...crownless in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." We have thus traced the history of two grand experiments in government. The first system was beautiful,... | |
 | Religion - 1845 - 816 pages
...crownless in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." We have thus traced the history of two grand experiments in government. The first system was beautiful,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 312 pages
...tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantlcss Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise,...distress. The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride; She saw her glories star by star expire, And up... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, (1) Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; AD empty" urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust...long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; (2) The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost Ihou flow, Old Tiber! through... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands. * Childless and crownless, ints In his " Mystery : "— " With respect to religion," he thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...quake to hear ! BYRON'S Giaour. 18. The Niohe of Nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 19. — While the tree Of freedom's wither'd trunk puts forth a leaf, Even for... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...quake to hear ! BYRON'S Giaour. 18. The Niobe of Nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 19. — While the tree Of freedom's wither'd trunk puts forth a leaf, Even for... | |
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