 The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?...  The Quarterly Review - Page 383edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 562 pages
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride — The trappings...dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here 'a neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the prond ? Alas! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, Save the long... | |
 | Readers - 1876
...adore, For the smoothness "it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride? To the trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are...long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ! Who hid, in their turns have been hid : The treasures are squandered... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. ourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds...surrounding families, that he is considered as the rig here 's neither dress nor adornments allowed. But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...The skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride — The trappings...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here 's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 304 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...dizen the proud? Alas! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adomment allowed, Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 570 pages
...purple of Pride — The trappings whieh dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here 's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas ! 't is in vain ; Who hid, in their turn have been hid : The treasures are squandered... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride ? To the trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornment allowed. But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 308 pages
...purple of pride ? To the trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud To Riches? Alas, 't is in vain ! Who hid, in their turns have been hid : The treasures are squandered... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride ? To the trappings which dizen the .proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud... | |
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