| 1818 - 502 pages
...our clay. 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 contain* no ashes now ; The very seputehrea lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...ENTERED ROME. 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 contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers... | |
| German literature - 1822 - 534 pages
...our clay. 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 contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantlcsa *) 91лф S r eu et '«... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...as our clay. 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 Scipioa' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - History - 1835 - 248 pages
...Italy. ROME. " 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." " Yet, this is Rome, That sat upon her seven hills, and, from her throne Of beauty, ruPd the world... | |
| Joshua Horner - Art - 1841 - 162 pages
...as our clay. The Niobe of nations I there she stands, Childless and crownless, in the voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Sciplo's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 432 pages
...petty misery. 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 Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 pages
...II. p. 35. " 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 Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers... | |
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