 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. 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.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 402 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.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatterM 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.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...clay. LXXIX. 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... | |
 | Octavian Blewitt - 1867 - 568 pages
...our clay. The Niohe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woo ; 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 ? Eise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress."... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...feet as fragile as our clay, LXXIX. The Niobe of nations 1 there she stands, Childless and crownless, Byron thou flow. Old Tiber 1 through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1868 - 544 pages
...tomb contains no ashes now, The very sepulchres lie tenantless 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-hilled city's pride ; She saw her glories star by star expire, And,... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." — Ibid. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost tliou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress."... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 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 dif... | |
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...will quake to hear ! BYRON'S Giaour. 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 — While the tree Of freedom's wither'd trunk puts forth a leaf, Even for thy... | |
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