 To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.  The Quarterly review - Page 3971819Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...And here in the grave ore all the metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffinlid. ife ! 'tis the still water faileth ; Idleness ever dcspaircth, bcwaileth ; [eth 1 here is a plentiful board 1 But tho guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 pages
...metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coftin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth ca.i afford — The revel, the laugh, and the jeer! Ah...here is a plentiful board : But the guests are all unite as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller hare. Shall we build to Ambition... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...which Mirth con afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer? Ah ! here id a plentiful board ! But th« een, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang : — she would have been A very n Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah no ! they have wither'd and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Sacred harp - 1874 - 174 pages
...And here, in the grave, are all metals forbid. Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love? Ah, no ! They have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...forbid, Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, Tho revel, the laugh and the jeer? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer, And HOIK; but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...afford, The revel, the laugh and the jeer? Ah ! here is a plentiful board! But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah, no! They have withered and died. Unto Sorrow? The dead cannot... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark colfin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, — The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Lovel Ah, no! they have withered and died, Or (led with the spirit... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the langh and the jeer? Ah! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affeetion and Love... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh and the jeer? All ! here is a plentiful board ! B«t the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer, And none but... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
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