 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. Rut oh 1 how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had hut begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...court, When sage* look'd to Egypt for their lore. • • • But oh ! .now unlike marble was that faoei How beautiful, if sorrow had not made \ \ Sorrow more...than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...palace court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.' The appearance of Saturn among the Titans is splendidly told: ' So Saturn, as he walk'd into the midst,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...his neck. Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx : But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard , As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was... | |
 | Great Britain - 1862 - 454 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful ! if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...palace-court. When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if Sorrow had not made Sorrow more...than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard. As if calamity had but began ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice,... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice,... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1846 - 340 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice,... | |
 | 1878 - 496 pages
...holy Love, according as it is written, "Thou art fairer than the children of men." Ah! "that Face! How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's lelf." And from the dying JESUS you shall receive the kiss of Peace, and dying daily you shall dare... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if Sorrow had not made Sorrow more...than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but began ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice,... | |
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There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up. 
