 Of what is't fools make such vain keeping ? Sin their conception, their birth weeping. Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet. And (the...  American Anthropologist - Page 131891Full view - About this book
 | Robert Bell - English drama - 1854 - 290 pages
...dame aloud, And bid her quickly don her shroud ! Much you had of land and rent; Your length in clay's now competent : A long war disturbed your mind ; Here your perfect peace is signed. Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Since their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1855 - 614 pages
...sway I Bright one ! oh ! there well may be Comfort 'midst our tears for thee !" THE ANCESTRAL SONG. A long war disturbed your mind — Here your perfect peace is signed, T is now full tide Iwixt night and day, End your moan, anil come away ! Webster— Duckest of Malfy.... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 pages
...aloud, And bid her quickly don her shroud. — Much you had of land and rent; Your length in clay's now competent. A long war disturbed your mind ; Here your perfect peace is signed. Of what is't fools make such vain keeping ? Sin, their conception ; their birth, weeping : Their life, a general... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...bid her quickly don her shroud. Much you had of land and rent ; Your length in clay's now competent3 A long war disturbed your mind ; Here your perfect peace is signed. Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Since their conception, birth, are weeping, Their life a general... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Greece - 1879 - 456 pages
...the Duchess of Malfi ere her execution : — Much you had of land and rent ; Your length in clay's now competent : A long war disturbed your mind ; Here your perfect peace is signed ! Some of these faces are commonplace, with bourgeois cunning written on the heavy features ; one is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...aloud, Aud bid her quickly don her shrood. Much you !•.:<!, of land and rent ; Your length iu clay's now competent. A long war disturbed your mind ; Here...signed. Of what is 't fools make such vain keeping? Siu, tlhiir coiKjeplion : their birth, weeping: Their life, a general miet of error; ''li 'ii death,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Greece - 1880 - 404 pages
...for the Duchess of Malfi ere her execution : Much you had of land and rent ; Your length in clay's now competent : A long war disturbed your mind ; Here your perfect peace is signed ! Some of these faces are commonplace, with bourgeois cunning written on the heavy features ; one is... | |
 | Wm. J. Linton - 1883 - 294 pages
...thou smile on thy lover. JOHN WEBSTER DIRGE T_T ARK ! now every thing is still, -*- -^ The screech-owl and the whistler shrill Call upon our Dame aloud,...Your length in clay 's now competent ; A long war disturb'd your mind, — Here your perfect peace is sign'd. Of what is 't fools make such vain keeping... | |
 | William James Linton - English poetry - 1883 - 300 pages
...night, Till thou smile on thy lover. JOHN WEBSTER DIRGE HARK ! now every thing is still, The screech-owl and the whistler shrill Call upon our Dame aloud,...Your length in clay 's now competent : A long war disturb'd your mind, — Here your perfect peace is sign'd. Of what is 't fools make such vain keeping... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Italy - 1884 - 348 pages
...found for the Duchess of Maln ere her execution: Much you had of land and rent; Your length in clay's now competent: A long war disturbed your mind; Here your perfect peace is signed! Some of these faces are commonplace, with bourgeois cunning written on the heavy features; one is bluff,... | |
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