 Oh, Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod...  The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 66by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1055 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Hayward - Authors - 1880 - 444 pages
...the emblems of human vanity, with the halo which he flings around the rocks and valleys of the Alps : Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. • • » •... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Authors - 1880 - 440 pages
...the emblems of human vanity, with the halo which he flings around the rocks and valleys of the Alps : Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. * * * • * "... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...fare thce well— upon Soracte's ridge we part. LXXVI II. O Rome ! my country ! city of the soul I differing in stature and degree, And clime and time,...seem'd made to tread, But rather skim the earth ; wh ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...unalterable mien. ROME. (Cu1LDE HAROLD, Canto iv. Stanzas 78, 79.) OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1881 - 326 pages
...unalterable mien. ROME. (CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. Stanzas 78, 79.) OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother...way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye. ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of... | |
 | Annie S. Wolf - Europe - 1881 - 456 pages
...all the world — only he was familiar to me. 21* LETTER LI. "O Rome ! my country ! city of my soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee Lone mother...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay." BYRON. ROME,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pages
...unalterable mien. ROME. (CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. Stanzas 78, 79.) OH Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of... | |
 | John Benjamin Figgis - Italy - 1882 - 226 pages
...and your life may be like His, glorified and blest. VI. Oh, Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. CHILDE HAROLD.... | |
 | Elocution - 1882 - 328 pages
...Maker's might ! 3. Pathos and Sublimity. ROME. — Byron. O Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of & day : — A world is at our teet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of... | |
 | Alfred Herbert Palmer - 1882 - 158 pages
...SURREY. THE CUMULUS IN MINIATURE. 1873. 79. A GOLDEN CITY. ' Oh, Rome ! my country ! city of the soul, The orphans of the heart must turn to thee Lone mother...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day : A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.' 1 1 2. LYCIDAS.... | |
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