 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, and the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple...here's neither dress nor adornment allowed But the long-winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ! Who hid, in their... | |
 | Lays - 1862 - 406 pages
...before — Kor 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....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... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...which, but yesterday, fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it won-. 264 Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches l alas ! 'tis in vain,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 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 1 alas ! 'tis in vain,... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 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... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 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....build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizzen the proud 1 Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornments allowM,... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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, t And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 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....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—... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Apostles - 1867 - 548 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 ? t Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 15 Shall we build to the purple of Pride — The trappings...; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, 19 But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas ! 'tis in vain ; Who hid,... | |
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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... 
