 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 300 pages
...before : Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore....dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1851 - 588 pages
...before ; Nor knows the fnul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday tools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....trappings which dizen the proud) Alas! they are all laid añide; And here's neither tirées nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...before — Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools conW adore. For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....Pride — The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas I they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adorument allow'd, But the long winding-sheet... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore, For tine smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall...laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets, The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore....they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? Alas ! 'tis... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1851 - 964 pages
...'before, Nor knows the foul worm, that it frets The skin which but yesterday fool's could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore....Pride ? The trappings which dizen the proud, Alas! they•are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it went X * 1 Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it hold or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings whicli di/en the proud? Alas! they are all laid aside, AnJ here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd,... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...before — Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....purple of Pride — The trappings which dizen the proud 1 Alas ! they are all laid aside — And here 's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...hut yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothuess it held or the tint which it wore. Shall we huild to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain... | |
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In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To BEAUTY ? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore... 
