 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pàgines
...doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend ; Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold, No smiling courtiers tread...That short, deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh ! change — oh ! wondrous change ! Burst are the prison bars, — This moment there so low, So... | |
 | J. B. Syme - 1852 - 196 pàgines
...in that poor shed, — One by that paltry bed, Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread...That short, deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh! change,— Oh! wondrous change, — Burst are the prison bars, — This moment there, so low, So... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace -gate. That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread:...That short deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh! change — oh! wondrous change Burst are the prison bars — This moment there, so low, Oh ! change... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...doth kcep his state ; Enter, — no crowds attend ; Enter, — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement, damp and cold, No smiling courtiers tread...hands, A dying head. No mingling voices sound, — An iut'unt wail alone ; A sob suppressed, — again That short, dcep gasp, and then The parting groan.... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pàgines
...keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend, This palace gate. / That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread...That short deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh ! change — oh ! wondrous change — Burst are the prison bars — This moment — there, so low,... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pàgines
...keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend, This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread...That short deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh ! change — oh ! wondrous change — Burst are the prison bars — This moment — tfiere, so low,... | |
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pàgines
...Greater than thou. Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement, damp and cold. No smiling courtiers tread...That short, deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh! change — Oh! wondrous change — Burst are the prison bars — This moment, there, so low, So... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pàgines
...doth keep his state, Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement, damp and cold, No smiling courtiers tread...That short deep gasp, and then — The parting groan. Oh ! change — oh, wondrous change ! Burst are the prison bars — This moment there, so low, So agonized... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pàgines
...doth keep his state ; Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no gnards defend This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread...mingling voices sound — An infant wail alone ; A sob suppress'd — again That short deep gasp and then The parting groan. Oh ! change — Oh ! wondrous... | |
 | 1853 - 324 pàgines
...courtiers tread. One silent woman stands, Chafing, with pale, thin hands, A dying head. No busy murmurs sound ; An infant wail alone : A sob suppressed, —...deep gasp, — and then The parting groan! O change ! 0 wondrous change ! Burst are the prison bars ! This moment there, — so low In mortal prayer, —... | |
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There's one in that poor shed, One by that paltry bed, Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! Death doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. 
