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
| 1896 - 1224 sider
...i. MOOKE — Lines on the Entry of the Austriam into Naples, 1821. Just prophet, let the damn'd one everend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all thin j. MOOBB — Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers. L. 1,028. And still adore the hand that gives the blow.... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 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 off, untouched,... | |
| Charlotte Brewster Jordan - 1897 - 208 sider
...Bayard of the South." 49. He who said, " Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. " 50. " His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast of virtue, peace and fame." 51. George Washington's successor as commanderin-chief of the United States army. 52. Add a letter... | |
| Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 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...fame ; May he, at last, with lips of flame, On the parched desert thirsting die, While lakes, that shine in mockery nigh, Are fading off, untouched, untasted,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1903 - 302 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...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 off, untouched,... | |
| Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 224 sider
...that vanish while he sips, Like Dead- Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips 1 His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast...sight of Paradise, Beholding heaven, and feeling hell ! " Last of all, and most lavishly decorated, is the story of the Feast of Koses at Cashmere. The opening... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1905 - 230 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...untasted, Like the once glorious hopes he blasted I And, when from earth his spirit flies, Just Prophet, let the damn'd-one dwell Full in the sight of... | |
| Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1905 - 234 sider
...that vanish while he sips, Like Dead-Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips 1 His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast...untasted, Like the once glorious hopes he blasted 1 And, when from earth his spirit flies, Just Prophet, let the damn'd-one dwell Full in the sight of... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 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 heaven, and feeling hell ! THOMAS MOORE (Lalla... | |
| George Wharton James - 1906 - 364 sider
...the judgment of Heaven upon him in the mirage: " May he, at last, with lips of flame, On the parched desert thirsting die, While lakes that shone in mockery nigh Are fading off, untouched, untasted." A thousand and one different mirages have been described, but, after twenty-five... | |
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