 That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain,...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 31by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...their Queen : This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo, Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1909 - 374 pages
...their queen ; This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every laboring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo, Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow consuming age. To each his sufferings ; all are men, Condemned alike to... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Democracy - 1909 - 168 pages
...years beneath A griefly troop are feen, The painful family of Death, More hideous than their Queen : This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring finew ftrains, * Madnefs laughing in his ireful mood. Dryden's Fable ofPalamon and Arcitc. PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.... | |
 | English poetry - 1911 - 784 pages
...their Queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo, Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his suff'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to... | |
 | American poetry - 1912 - 624 pages
...their Queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every laboring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...their queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, 85 That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. 90 To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemn'd alike... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...their Queen : This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouriug sinew strains, Those efall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'T is better to have loved soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. 90 To each his sufferings : all are men, Coudemu'd alike... | |
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