 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
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1888 - 420 pages
...again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid But the tinsel that shines on tho dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford. The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here in a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mut« as their pitiful cheer. And none but the worm is... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 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 t Ah, no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 pages
...again ; And here in the grave axe all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! Bit the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveler here. Shall... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 482 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 jeer ? Ah ! here is a pbntiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller... | |
 | Charles Frederick Forshaw - 1892 - 202 pages
...forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford f The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is...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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 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. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah, no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 452 pages
...again ; And here in the grave are all metale forbid But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all muto as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1893 - 460 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,...laugh and the jeer ? Ah! here is a plentiful board I But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Unto... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid. Bit the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford — The revel, the laugh , and the jeer ? Ah 1 here is a plentiful board I Bat the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the... | |
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