 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 páginas
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure: Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tombs no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted v.iult The... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 páginas
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pornp of pow'r, And all that beauty all that wealth e'ervgave, Await alike th' inevitable hour : The... | |
 | 1814 - 310 páginas
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...but to the grave* Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the>fault,' If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead—but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no... | |
 | 1814 - 678 páginas
...THE EMPRESS CATHARINE II. OF RUSSIA. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. HARK to that paean song, whose choral lay Sounds the glad march of FREEDOM'S .smiling... | |
 | 1814 - 670 páginas
...THE EMPRESS CATHARINE II. OF RUSSIA. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. HARK to that paean song, whose choral lay Sounds the glad march of FREEDOM'S smiling... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure : Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour : Th* paths... | |
 | 1814 - 676 páginas
...EMPRESS CATHARINE II. OF RUSSIA. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, alt that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to tbe grave. Sounds the glad march of FREEDOM'S smiling train; With what sweet cadence does it... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1815 - 376 páginas
...short and simple annals of the poor. The biast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th inevitable...grave. Nor you, ye proud' impute to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Where thro" the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 páginas
...fhort and iimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike, th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave ! Si Nor yoUi ye proud, impute to thefe the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave... 
