...temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day— A, world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. Ũ wo, An empty urn, within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's...

...day—- A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, 1 Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now f The...

...lesson which Byron applies to Rome: "The Niobe of Nations — there she stands, Crownless and childless in her voiceless woe, An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose sacred dust was scattered long ago!" XXXIX. It suggests the inevitable end of all empire, of all dominion...

...grief. The story of Niobe has furnished Byron with a fine illustration of the fallen condition of modern Rome: "The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now: The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers; dost...

...Pope, Dunciad, 2, 311; Lewis Morris, Niobe on Sipylus (Songs Unsung) ; Byron's noble stanza on fallen Rome, " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe," etc. (Childe Harold, 4, 79) ; WS Landor, Niobe ; Frederick Tennyson, Niobe. On Tantalus, see Lewis...

...grief. The story of Niobe has furnished Byron with a fine illustration of the fallen condition of modern Rome: The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now: The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers; dost...

...and temples, Ye I Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. ou, if Laura hadbeen Petrarch's wife, He would have...sonnets all his life ? IX. All tragedies are finish wither 'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;...

...country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires. . . . The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe.13 The other that Italy represents is simultaneously obj ect of desire and point of origin or "mother"...

...irregular cavalry, author of many sporting novels 70 (p. 247) from Byron's Childe Harold, Canto IV: 'The Niobe of Nations! there she stands, / Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe.' 72 (p. 266) Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836) French physicist and mathematician 73 (p. 2 7 1 ) What a...

...thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; 705 An empty urn within her wither'd hands, LXXIX The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very...