 Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of men. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in...  Time's Telescope - Seite cx1826Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1824 - 494 Seiten
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, .Vor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. In pitying pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shape abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like gnu beneath the scythe.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 Seiten
...back. Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Strelcn'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath...in yon skies To watch thy fading fire ; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me expire. My lips that speak thy dirge of death — Their roundecf gasp... | |
 | 1823 - 592 Seiten
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe Stretch 'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 Seiten
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back. Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the icythe.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1824 - 176 Seiten
.... , Upon the stage of men, .,. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. ; Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1824 - 176 Seiten
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.... | |
 | Martin MacDermot - 1824 - 602 Seiten
...Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or moan in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. E'en I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire ; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me expire. My lips that speak thy dirge of death—- Their rounded gasp... | |
 | Martin MacDermot - 1824 - 604 Seiten
...this proud spirit, who represents men as Piteous pageants, Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe, while he himself defies " the darkening universe," is of such a character, that we cannot read this... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 510 Seiten
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.... | |
 | 1825 - 588 Seiten
...Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous-pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown iii battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.... | |
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