 | 1843 - 686 pages
...that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the beauty it held, or the tint that it wore. Shall we build to the Purple of Pride, The trappings that dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 188 pages
...] Ah ! no ; she forgets The charms that she wielded before : Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For...neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. -- . m (•* ' \ • r.rd v|< / I v.'-^Xo -. • * IT IS... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...1 Ah no ! she forgets The charms which «he wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets h to remark it, but there are times and places when...hollow of the tree. It is worth a thousand homilies Ī Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...t Ah no ! she forgets The charms which »he wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he fret» e fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round, They snatched t Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before; Nor knows the foul worm that befrets The skins which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness...Pride, The trappings which 'dizen the proud ? Alas I they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, Bat the long winding-sheet,... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pages
...1 Ah ! no ; she forgets The charms that she wielded before : Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore,...the purple of pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?j Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1844 - 486 pages
...She forgets The charms that she wielded before; Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tints which it wore.' MILITANT ARIAS —BY AN AMATEUR. NOBODY is cynic or green-goose enough to deny... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas! 'tis in vain, Who hid,... | |
 | William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 pages
...? Ah ! no : she forgets The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore For...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, K And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed But the long winding-sheet and I he fringe of the... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...no !— she forgets' The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets' The skin', which', but yesterday', fools could adore',...For the smoothness it held', or the tint which it wort. 4. Shall we build to the purple of Pride' — The trappings which dizen the proud' ? Alas, they... | |
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In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To BEAUTY ? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore... 
