 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.  Childe Harold's pilgrimage: Italy - Page 64by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago; •The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress. The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride;... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 432 pages
...woe : An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.] Rome, April 30th. [1768.] MY DEAR GEORGE, I AM very sorry that I had not time to write to you by the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wildernesss ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress....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 up the steep barbarian monarch's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...woe, An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; (') The very sepulchres...dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wildernesss ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress. The Goth, the Christian, Time,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Politicians - 1843 - 424 pages
...woe : An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie...their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber 1 through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.] Rome, April... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1843 - 616 pages
...Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantiess Of their heroic dwellers : do,t thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress." Uhilde Harold, iv. At the Osteria del fossa the road crosses one of the branches of the Cremera, and... | |
 | 1843 - 778 pages
...withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." * » • " Do»t thou flow. Old Tiber! thro' a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress!" One may be excused, under such circumstances, for quoting a little poetry, especially such beautiful... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...wo ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie...Rise with thy yellow waves and mantle her distress ! The Goth, the Christian, time, war, flood and fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 316 pages
...was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantlcss Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber!...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress. The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride;... | |
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