 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For I am a child at those things. I sometimes visit his...hollow of the tree. It is worth a thousand homilies Î Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he fret» The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For 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... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 páginas
...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 wore....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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 páginas
...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 tint which it wore....laid 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,... | |
 | William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 páginas
...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 wore....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 páginas
...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...the proud' ? Alas, they are all laid aside — And here 's neither dross nor adornment allowed', But the long wmding-sheetv and the fringe of the shroud*... | |
 | Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 páginas
...skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it bore. Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings...the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. 154 LINES WRITTEN IN A CHUBCHYARD. To riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain, Who hid, in their turns have been... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 páginas
...worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, and the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To riches ? alas ! 'tis in vain,... | |
 | Esq. J. B. (Barrister-at-Law.), John Bill - 1850 - 586 páginas
...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 wore....neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? alas,'tis in Tain, Who hid, in their turns... | |
 | 1850 - 340 páginas
...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 wore....laid aside, . And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 't is in vain,... | |
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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... 
