 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 188 pages
...build to Ambition] Ah! no; Affrighted he shrinketh away; For see! they would pin him below To a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...prey. To Beauty ] Ah ! no ; she forgets The charms that she wielded before : Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pages
...to ambition ? Ah ! no ; Affrighted he shrinketh away For see ! they would pin him below To a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To beauty 1 Ah ! no ; she forgets The charms that she wielded before : Nor knows the foul worm that he frets... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...build to Ambition f Ah no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away; For see, they would pin him below [na small c cell ; Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond the muse's painting ; By turns t Ah no ! she forgets The charms which »he wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he fret»... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...to Ambition ! Ah no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away ; For see, they would pin him lielow In a small lergyman üt Ipswich, where she died in 1803, aged seventyeight. An early admiration of Horace W 1 Ah no ! she forgets The charms which «he wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1844 - 486 pages
...build to Ambition 1 Ah no! Affrighted, he shrinketh away ; For see, they would pin him below, In a dark narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a pee» and a prey To Beauty ? Ah no ! —she forgets The charm that she wielded before ; Nor knows the... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...build to Ambition ? Ah no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away ; For see, they would pin him below In a dark narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we... | |
 | William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 pages
...to Ambition ? Ah ! no : Affrighted he shriuketh away; For see ! they would pin him below To & small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...prey, To Beauty ? Ah ! no : she forgets The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which, but yesterday, fools... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...to ambition? Oh, no ! Affrighted he shrinketh away ; For see ! they would fix him below, In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, and the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?... | |
 | Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 pages
...For see, they would pin him below In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the mealiest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To beauty ? Ah ! no ; she forgets The charms that she wielded before, Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which, but yesterday, fools... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...to Ambition ? Ah ! no : Affrighted, he shrinketh away ; For see, they would pin him below To a small narrow cave ; and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...prey. To Beauty ? Ah ! no : she forgets The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools... | |
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Shall we build to Ambition ? Ah no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away, — For see, they would pin him below In a dark narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. 
