And they were enemies: they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew... Poems - Page 360by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859Full view - About this book
| 1817 - 608 pages
...city did survive, And they were enemies; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage;...saw, and shriek'd, and died—- Even of their mutual hidcousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1815 - 324 pages
...survive, And they were enemies ; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heapM a mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked...mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 pages
...city did survive, And they were enemies ; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage...mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...did survive, And they were enemies ; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place, Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage...died — Even of their mutual hideousness they died, i. .. Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was void. The populous... | |
| 1816 - 692 pages
...survive, -But two And they were enemies; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place, Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage;...feeble breath Blew for a little life, and made a flame Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Which was a mockery; then they lifted up Each other's aspects—saw,... | |
| 1816 - 572 pages
...city did survive, And they were enemies ; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage...up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton handa The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and made a flame Which was... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pages
...city did survive, And they were enemies; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage;...mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 pages
...city did survive, And they were enemies ; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage...mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...city did survive, And they were enemies ; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage...and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and make a flame Which was a mockery ; then they lifted up Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...city did survive, And they were enemies ; they met bwide The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage...other's aspects — saw, and shriek'd, and died—- Evea of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written... | |
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