 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 768 pages
...Heaven's design, Why then a Jlorgia or a Catiline f — POPE. 2. Galileo, the Columbus of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless...withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago. 4. Some village Hamdcn, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline f — POPE. 9. Galileo, the Columbus of the heavens. 3. The Ninbe of nations, there she stands, Childless and crownless,...withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago. 4. ' Some village Hamdcn, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1924 - 486 pages
...Ye 1 Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The N iobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust wasscatter'd long ago; The Scipios' toriib contains no ashes now ,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires I The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago. Ctoldt Harold, Cant, iv. BYRON. TEMPLE OF THE CLITPMNUS. But thou, Clitumnua ! in thy sweetest wave... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...! 25 Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe1 of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; 1 Niobe, in Greek mythology, for her impious pride in saying that her children were superior to the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 70 2 The Niobe l etre of an antique song : But were some child of yours alive that time, You should live twice; in it wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;... | |
 | Camillo von Klenze - Literary Criticism - 1966 - 346 pages
...becomes the spot where men have suffered. "The city of the soul" is now "The Niobe of Nations" and stands "childless and crownless in her voiceless woe, an empty urn within her withered hands," and the Tiber flows "through a marble wilderness." Subtler than Byron but less appealing to the imagination... | |
 | Camillo von Klenze - German drama - 1926 - 344 pages
...becomes the spot where men have suffered. "The city of the soul" is now "The Niobe of Nations" and stands "childless and crownless in her voiceless woe, an empty urn within her withered hands," and the Tiber flows "through a marble wilderness." Subtler than Byron but less appealing to the imagination... | |
 | Frances Ellis Sabin - English poetry - 1927 - 444 pages
...arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight. LORD BYRON, Childe Harold, Canto IV, 161 The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe. LORD BYRON, Childe Harold, Canto IV, 79 II. IN WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS The Greeks in later times thought... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - Europe - 1928 - 454 pages
...and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago : The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The... | |
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The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios... 
