 | 1841 - 306 pages
...courtiers tread ; One silent woman stands, Clasping 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 ! oh, wondrous change! Burst are the prison bars ! This aiomcut there so low In mortal pangs — and... | |
 | 1870 - 406 pages
...doth keep his state. Enter — no crowds attend, Enter— no guards defend, This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold, No smiling courtiers tread...woman stands Lifting with meagre hands. A dying head." On leaving Frying-pan Alley we proceed to Broad Yard, and to a little garret up a dark, dirty staircase.... | |
 | 1843 - 678 pages
...doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold, No smiling courtiers tread...mingling voices sound — An infant wail alone ; A sob suppress'd — agen That short deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh ! change — Oh ! wondrous... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...silent woman stands, Clasping, with pale thin hands, A dying head. No busy murmurs sound ; A poor boy's wail alone — A sob suppressed — again That short...deep gasp — and then The parting groan. O change, oh, wondrous change ! Burst are the prison bars ! This moment there so low In mortal pangs — and... | |
 | 1843 - 708 pages
...doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold, No smiling courtiers tread ; One silent woman stands billing with meagre hands A dying head. No mingling voices sound — An infant wail alone ; A sob suppress'd... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pages
...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 —...are the prison bars ! This moment there — so low In mortal prayer — and now Beyond the stars ! O change! stupendous change! Here lies the senseless... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread...meagre hands A dying head. No mingling voices sound — One infant wail alone ; A sob suppressed — again That short, deep gasp, and then The parting... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1845 - 294 pages
...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 —...are the prison bars ! This moment there — so low In mortal prayer — and now Beyond the stars ! O change ! stupendous change ! Here lies the senseless... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...doth keep his state, Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...Lifting with meager hands A dying head. No mingling voices An infant wail alone; A sob suppress'd— agen That short, deep gasp, and then The parting groan....!— O wondrous change '.Burst are the prison bars— Tin-- moment there, so low, So agonized, and now Beyond the stars ! O change ! — stupendous change... | |
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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. 
