 His country's curse, his children's shame. Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame. May he, at last, with lips of flame On the parch'd desert thirsting die, — While lakes that shone in mockery nigh...  Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance - Side 187af Thomas Moore - 1854 - 287 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Moore - 1863 - 580 sider
...that vanish while he sips, Like Dead-Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips ! His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast...While lakes that shone in mockery nigh Are fading oft, untouch'd, untasted, Like the once glorious hopes he blasted ! And, when from earth his spirit... | |
 | 1865 - 426 sider
...that vanish while he sips, Like Dead-Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips ! * His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast...sight of Paradise, Beholding heaven, and feeling hell ! ashes." — Thevenet. The same is asserted of the oranges there; v. Witman's Travels in Asiatic Turkey.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sider
...blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! Thos. Moore. His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame. Thas. Moon. Who strikes at sov'reign power, had need strike home ; For storms that fail to blow the... | |
 | Acrostics - 1871 - 312 sider
...remote, Veiled by the screen of hills ; true men are few, Scanty the hamlet, rare the lonely cot." 11. " His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast...and fame, May he at last with lips of flame, On the parched desert thirsting die." 12. "O when he took the water, the saumon fry they rose, And tugged... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 356 sider
...life, the rhyme proceeds, — " And when from earth his spirit flies, Just Prophet ! let the damned one dwell Full in the sight of Paradise, Beholding heaven and feeling hell ! " This is so raw, and the artifice so evident, that it is calculated to cast ominous conjecture on... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1872 - 660 sider
...children's | Are failing off, untouched, untasted,1 shame, | Like the once glorious hopes he blasted ! Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame, May he, at last,...the parch'd desert thirsting die, — While lakes nigh that ehoue in mockery And, when from earth his spirit Hies, Just Prophet, let the damn'd-one dwell... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 sider
...that vanish while he sips, Like Dead-Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips ! His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast...While lakes that shone in mockery nigh Are fading oft, untouch'd, untasted, Like the once glorious hopes he blasted ! And, when from earth his spirit... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1875 - 486 sider
...tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips ! His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcasts of virtue, peace, and fame, May he, at last, with lips of flame On the parched desert thirsting die — While lakes that shone in mockery nigh Are fading 6ff, untouched,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 484 sider
...tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips ! His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcasts of virtue, peace, and fame, May he, at last, with lips of flame On the parched desert thirsting die — While lakes that shone in m6ckery nigh Are fading 6ff, untouched,... | |
 | Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - 1879 - 572 sider
...that vanish while he sips, Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips! His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast...from earth his spirit flies, Just Prophet, let the damn'd one dwell Full in the sight of Paradise, Beholding heav'n, and feeling hell! LALLA ROOKH had,... | |
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