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 | Joseph Cross - Europe - 1859 - 536 pages
...capital, have lain crumbling for many centuries. Turn toward the south, and let us begin in due form : "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'... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...her hundred isles V He beheld the Eternal City, the " Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe, An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." He gazed upon the marble of the world-renowned Apollo:— " The lord of the unerring bow, The god of... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. usalem In England's green and pleasant land. ROBERT BURNS TO A MOUSE ON TURNING UP woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios'... | |
 | Education - 1902 - 830 pages
...children you interest them. There is a great charm about these well-selected myths. LITERATURE. 1. " The Niobe of nations, there she stands Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe, An empty urn within her wi'hered hands. Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." From what p.iem... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - Gesture - 1920 - 668 pages
...Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. VOICE QUALITY 101 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'... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...(Apollo and Artemis) saw her children destroyed by the gods. She turned to stone, but wept eternally. An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios'1 tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers :... | |
 | 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago. Ctoldt Harold,... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX 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' tomb... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago : The Scipios'... | |
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