 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 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....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... | |
 | Gething - 1838 - 426 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. Shall we build to the palace of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. ,To Riches ? Alas ! 't is in vain, Who hid in their turns have been hid: The treasures are squander'd again; And here... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed ] Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the Shroud. l76 _ STANZAS. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that 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 adormnent allowed Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the Shroud. l76 STANZAS. To Riches... | |
 | 1841 - 686 pages
...wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could ndore Kor 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 winding-sheet,... | |
 | 1842 - 820 pages
...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that, 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 allowed, Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 1843 - 686 pages
...that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the beauty it held, or the tint that it wore. Shall we build to the Purple of Pride, The trappings that dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Ballads, English - 1844 - 188 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....laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. -- . m (•* ' \ • r.rd v|< / I... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...wielded before; Nor knows the foul worm that befrets The skins which but yesterday fools could 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 adornment allow'd, Bat the long winding-sheet,... | |
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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... 
