 Frail as the leaf in Autumn's yellow bower, Dust in the wind, or dew upon the flower ; A friendless slave, a child without a sire, Whose mortal life, and momentary fire, Lights to the grave his chance-created form, v As ocean-wrecks illuminate the storm...  The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems - Page 81by Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - 1800 - 168 pages
...is o'er, To Night and Silence fmk for evermore i — Are thefe the pompous tidings ye proclaim, 315 Lights of the world, and demi-gods of Fame ? Is this your triumph — this your proud applaufe, Children of Truth, and champions of her cau/e ? For this hath Science fearch'd, on weary... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1803 - 162 pages
...without a sire, Whose mortal life, and momentary fire, • Lights to the grave his chance-created form, As ocean-wrecks illuminate the storm; And, when the...of the world, and demi-gods of Fame? Is this your triumph—this your proud applause, Children of Truth, and champions of her cause?' For this hath Science... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1804 - 144 pages
...without a sire, Whose mortal life, and momentary fire, Lights to the grave his chance-created form, As Ocean-wrecks illuminate the storm ; And, when the...tremendous flash is o'er, To Night and Silence sink for ever more !.... Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim, Lights of the world, and demi-gods of Fame... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
...without a sire, Whose mortal life, and momentary fire, Lights to the grave his chance-created form, As ocean.wrecks illuminate the storm; And, when the...tremendous flash is o'er, To night and silence sink for ever more!— Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim, Lights of the world, and demi-gods of Fame!... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1813 - 164 pages
...the storm; And, when the gun's tremendous flash is o'er, To night and silence sink for ever more !— Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim, Lights of the world, and demi-gods of Fame ! Is this your triumph—this your proud applause, Children of Truth, and champions of her cause ? For this hath Science... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1817 - 166 pages
...Whose mortal life, and momentary fire, Rights to the grave his chance-created form, As oceanr wrecks illuminate the storm ; And when the gun's tremendous flash is o'er, To night and silence sink for ever more ! — Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim, Lights of the world, and demi-gods of Fame... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English fiction - 1822 - 170 pages
...without a sire, Whose mortal life, and momentary fire, Lights to the grave his chance-created form, As ocean-wrecks illuminate the storm; And, when the...proclaim, Lights of the world, and demi-gods of Fame ? la this your triumph—this your proud applause, Children of Truth, and champions of her cause ?... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English fiction - 1822 - 166 pages
...without a sire, Whose mortal life, and momentary fire, Lights to the grave his chance-created form, As ocean-wrecks illuminate the storm ; And, when the gun's tremendous flash is o'er, i To night and silence sink for evermore! — Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim, Lights of... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...without a sire, Whose mortal life, and momentary fire, Lights to the grave his chance-created form, As ocean-wrecks illuminate the storm ; And, when the...tremendous flash is o'er, To night and silence sink for ever more ! — Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim, Lights of the world, and demi-gods of fame... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...bower, Dust in the wind, or dew upon the flower ! And, when the gun's tremendous flash is o'er, 30 To night and silence sink for evermore!— Are these...of the world, and demi-gods of fame ? Is this your triumph—this your proud applause, Children of Truth, and champions of her cause ? 30 And wheeled... | |
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