| English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...queen ; This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every laboring sinew strains, Those in tho 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 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, To each his sufferings : all arc men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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, Condemned alike to... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 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 Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...their queen : Tliis 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 : nil are men, Condemned alike to... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 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... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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, Condemned alike to... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 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. 10 To each his sufferings ; all are men Condemn'd alike... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...their queen : . This racks the joints, this fires the \eins, 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. 10 To each his sufferings ; all are men Condemn'd alike... | |
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