| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...elf! Art sworn to secrecy ? then keep thy vows ; But prithee tell us something of thyself; MnrcliM armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread, O'erthrew...and wonder, When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder? If the tomb's secrets may not be confess'd, The nature of thy private life unfold : A heart has throbb'd... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head When the great Persian...armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread, O'erthrew Osirus, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the pyramids with fear and wonder, When the gigantic Memnon fell... | |
| Jesse Olney - Readers - 1854 - 352 pages
...came and fed them with her milk. I! Dido, founder of the Carthaginian Empire, H(J!) BC 8. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head When the great Persian...armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread, O'erthrew Osiris,f Orus,f Apis.f Isis,f And shook the Pyramids with fear and wonder, When the gigantic Memnon... | |
| Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not & fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head When the great Persian...March'd armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread, O'orthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the Pyramids with fear and wonder, When the gigantic... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...countless kings have into dust been humbled, Whilst not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head, When the great...conqueror, Cambyses, March'd armies o'er thy tomb with thund'ring tread, O'erthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the pyramids with fear and wonder,... | |
| Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head, When the great Persian conqueror, Cambyses, Marched armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread, O'erthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head, When the great Persian conqueror, Cambyses, Marched armies o'er thy tomb, with thundering tread, O'erthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook... | |
| John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. * Pron. ha'-pen-ne. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head When the great Persian conqueror, Cambyses, Marched armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread O'erthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head, When the great...Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the Pyramids with fear and wondei^ When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder ? If the tomb's secrets may not be confess'd, The nature... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...countless kings have into dust been humbled, Whilst not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. Didst thou not hear the pother o'er thy head, When the great Persian conqueror, Cambyses, Mareh'd armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread, O'erthrew Osiris, Oms, Apis, Isis, And shook the... | |
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