 Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.  The works of lord Byron - Page 49by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826Full view - About this book
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...crownless, in her voiceless woe; , An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; . The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy jellow waves, and mantle her distress... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Nlobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1861 - 418 pages
...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow. Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness ? Else with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1863 - 658 pages
...with the guilt of centuries. 42* " The Xiobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd...tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantloss Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! througli a marble wilderness ? Rise,... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1863 - 668 pages
...erownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withcr'd hands, Whose holy dust was seatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1861 - 448 pages
...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; — The Scipios" tomb contains no ashes...lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : — dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...crownless in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers ; dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd...; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; : The Duke of Brunswick was killed at Quatre Bras on the 16th of June. His father received the wounds, of... | |
 | Philip Smith - History, Ancient - 1864 - 792 pages
...tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness ? Rise...! " The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride ; She saw her glories, star by star, expire, And... | |
 | Philip Smith - History, Ancient - 1865 - 614 pages
...CHAPTER XX. ROME UNDER THE KINGS. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd...hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers :... | |
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