 Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.  The works of lord Byron - Page 49by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Kiobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, ordon Byron Byron Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenanlless Of their heroic dwellers :... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pages
...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago : The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers ! Dost thou flow, Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchers lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise,...distress. The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire Have dealt upon the seven-hilled city's pride ; She saw her glories star by star expire, And up... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, andies, now Perchance succeeded by some other class Of imitated imitators: — how •» thou flow, Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1905 - 726 pages
...our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, 10 Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd...contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless 15 Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchers lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness? Rise,...distress ! The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hilled city's pride; She saw her glories star by star expire, And up... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd bands, 60 In vain might Liberty invoke The spirit to its...courts the yoke: No more her sorrows I bewail, Yet this thou flow, Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...feet as fragile as our clay. LXX1X The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, " The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers; — dost thou flow, Old Tiber, through... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pages
...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now;...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | J. B. Wilson - 1905 - 390 pages
...tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchers lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers; dost thou flow Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise...with thy yellow waves and mantle her distress. "The double night of ages, and of her, Night's Ignorance, hath wrapt and wrapt All round us ; we but feel... | |
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