His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day : For all those trophied arts And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Heal'd not... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 273edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
| English poetry - 1904 - 1052 pages
...arts And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Healed not a passion or a pang Entailed on human hearts. Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of...waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scvthe.... | |
| English poetry - 1905 - 622 pages
...arts And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Hepl'd not a passion or a pang Entail'd on human hearts. " Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of...mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. " Ev'n I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire ; Test of all sumless agonies. Behold... | |
| George Eyre-Todd - English poetry - 1906 - 474 pages
...arts And triumphs, that beneath thee sprang, Healed not a passion or a pang Entailed on human hearts. Go ! Let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of...waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe — Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...arts And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Heal'd not a passion or a pang Entail'd on human hearts. ' Go, let Oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of...mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. ' Ev'n I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold... | |
| George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...And triumphs that beneatli thee sprang, Heal VI not a passion or a pang 40 Entail 'd on human hearts. ecayed, And pastoral melancholy. That region left,...unfolds M Rich groves of lofty stature, With Yarr 43 Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch... | |
| Ebenezer E. Lewis - Hymns, English - 1917 - 168 pages
...arts And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Heal'd not a passion or a pang Entail'd on human hearts. "Go; let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of...mown in battle by the sword Like grass beneath the scythe. "Ev'n I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold... | |
| Mary Shelley - Fiction - 1996 - 476 pages
...And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Heal'd not a passion or a pang Entail'd on human hearts. 40 Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of...tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back, 45 Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...always to be successful." 33-36 Compare the fifth and sixth stanzas of Thomas Campbell's "Last Man": Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of...with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again . . . The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, — The majesty of darkness shall Receive my parting ghost.... | |
| English literature - 1828 - 502 pages
...arts And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Heal'd not a passion or a pang Entail'd on human hearts. Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of...again. Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken 8esh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle... | |
| Readers - 1899 - 336 pages
...arts and triumphs, that beneath thee sprang, healed not a passion or a pang entailed on human hearts. Go ! let oblivion's curtain fall upon the stage of men ! nor with the rising beams recall life's tragedy again ! Its piteous pageants bring not back, nor waken flesh... | |
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