 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 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. To Riches? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hide... | |
 | Sacred harp - Christian poetry, English - 1874 - 174 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. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hid... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...before — Nor knows the foul worm that lie 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 'a neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 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....the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the prond ? Alas! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, Save the long... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 304 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....dizen the proud? Alas! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adomment allowed, Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...•— • 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 allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but...melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp o here 's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 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....we build to the purple of Pride — The trappings whieh dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here 's neither dress nor adornment allowed,... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 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 purple of Pride ? To the trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 308 pages
...purple of pride ? To 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, and the fringe of the shroud To Riches? Alas, 't is in vain ! Who hid, in their turns have been hid : The treasures are squandered again ; And here... | |
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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... 
