 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...pleasures which Mirth can iiiluiil, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer? Ah 1 here is a plentiful lx>ard 1 But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love 1 Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...turn have been hid ; The treasures arc squander'd again, And here in the grave are all metals forbid, h ! and oft I blush'd to see its foot more soft And...on those little silver feet ! With what a pretty, Shall we build to Affection and Love? Ah, no ! they have wither'd and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. at their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...; And here, in the grave, are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer T Ah ! hero is a plentiful board, But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, Aud none but... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...which Mirth can afford, Tbe revel, tbo laugh, und the jeorf Ah ! hero is a plentiful board, lint tbo nature know. What though my shrinking flesh complain, Shall we build to Affection and Love Î Ah! no: they have withered aud died, Or lied witb the spirit... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 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, the laugh, and the jeert All ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 516 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. "Onto sorrow ? The dead cannot grieve, Not a sob, not a sigh meets mine ear, Which compassion itself... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1885 - 1148 pages
...metals forbid, Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth c.in afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah, here is a plentiful hoard! But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer. And none but the worm is a reveller here.... | |
 | 1886 - 548 pages
...again, And here in the grave are all metals forbid But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffinlid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. JA tue be a Cu Shall we build to Affection and Love? Ah, no ! they have withered and died, Or fled... | |
 | 1888 - 916 pages
...again, And here, in the grave, are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which MIRTH can afford ? The revel,...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... | |
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