 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance...of power to rest ; Where man can boast that he has trode On him, that was " the scourge of of God." But ye the mountain stream shall turn, And lay its... | |
 | Martin MacDermot - English literature - 1824 - 602 pages
...repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance of woes; — Nor sculptured lay, with lying breath, Insult the clay that moulds beneath. Ye shall not pile, with senile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance...not pile with servile toil Your monuments upon my breast7. Nor yet within the common soil h Lay down the wreck of power to rest ; Where man can boast... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance...moulds beneath. Ye shall not pile, with servile toil, Lay down the wreck of Power to rest; Where man can boast that he has trod On him, that was " the scourge... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance...of woes ; Nor sculptured clay, with lying breath, Ye shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust '. Upon the spot where I repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust; In hollow circumstance...that he has trod On him, that was " the scourge of God.'l But ye the mountain stream shall turn, And lay its secret channel bare, And hollow, for your... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...Nor take the boon I cannot give. ' Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance...monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Where man can boast that he has trod Lay down the wreck of Power to rest; On him, that was " the scourge... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance...soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest; Where man cen boast that he has trod On him that was ' the scourge of God.' But ye the mountain stream Adi turn,... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose ; Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance...he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God," 168 DIRGE OF ALARIC THE VISIGOTH. But ye the mountain stream shall turn, And lay its secret channel... | |
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WHEN I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear ; For I will die as I did live, Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where... 
