 Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye!  The works, of ... lord Byron - Page 36by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Full view - About this book
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...the queen of Europe, the conqueress of the world. — The ' lone mother of dead empires,' " The Niohe of nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe !" Time has been, that her senators were princes of the earth ; that pleading nations came to receive... | |
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...transient gleam from the light of other days—a memory of the past— a dream of former triumphs. D2 ' The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe!' She silently appeals to every heart for sympathy, and awakens a chord of deep and tender feeling in... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples,...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. (Byron's Don Juan.) I. To DOUBT, 2. QUESTION. 1. S3e5nmfeln , in S^eifeí äicl;en; 2. bfjtretfcln,... | |
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...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owlf and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples,...day,— A world Is at our feet, as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations I there she stands, Childless and crownless, in the voiceless woe; An empty urn... | |
 | sir Henry Delmé (fict.name.) - 1841 - 524 pages
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 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod lthough it spoke not, and grew keen, Entering with every step he took through many a sce — Л world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pages
...Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobc 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 ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...their petty misery. What are our woes and suflerance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod Which, sparkl 1ЛМХ. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, * Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ;... | |
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...only be the more marked and the more miserable. " Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day. M The Goth, the Christian, Tune, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hilled city's pride... | |
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...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The eypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn... | |
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