 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 pages
...steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at 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 hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pages
...steps of broken thrones and empires, Ye Whose agonies are creatures of a day ! A world is at 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 withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered... | |
 | C. van Tiel, M. G. van Neck - 1900 - 472 pages
...steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at 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 hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - 1900 - 476 pages
...steps of broken thrones and temples, ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day I A world is at 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 withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 468 pages
...O'er steps of broken thrones and empires, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day! A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! There she stands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago: The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchers... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...steps of broken thrones and temples, ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at 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 withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 726 pages
...of broken thrones and temples, — Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at 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 hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 772 pages
...of broken thrones and temples, — Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at 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 hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...O'er steps of broken thrones and empires, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day! A world is at 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 withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pages
...O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day : A world is at 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 withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered... | |
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Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at 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 withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long... 
