 | English literature - 1835 - 426 pages
...why need ye sow the floods with death ? Ye build, ye build — but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devoured in their sin ; From the land of promise ye fade and die, Kre its verdure gleams on your weary eye. As the kings of the cloud-crowned pyramid, Their noteless... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...thronging dead ? Ye build,—ye build,—but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devour'd in their sin. From the land of promise ye fade and...pyramid, Their noteless bones in oblivion hid, Ye slumber unmark'd 'mid the desolate main, While the wonder and pride of your works remain. The next is a stately... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...thronging dead ! Ye build — ye build — but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devour'd in their sin ; From the land of promise ye fade and die, Ere its verdure gleams forth on yourweary eye ; — As the kings of the cloud-crown'd pyramid, Their noteless bones in oblivion hid,... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...thronging dead ? ' Ye build,—ye build,—but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devour'd in their sin; From the land of promise ye fade and...gleams forth on your weary eye; As the kings of the cloud-crown'd pyramid Their noteless bones in oblivion hid; Ye slumber unmark'd 'mid the desolate main,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...The boundless sea for the thronging dead? Ye build—ye build—but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devoured in their sin; From the land of promise ye fade and die, As the kings of the cloud-crowned pyramid, Ere its verdure gleams forth on your weary eye;— Their... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...thronging dead ? Ye build, — ye build, — but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devour'd in their sin ; From the land of promise ye fade and...Their noteless bones in oblivion hid ; Ye slumber unmark'd 'mid the desolate main, While the wonder and pride of your works remain. WITH WILD FLOWERS... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American poetry - 1834 - 316 pages
...boundless sea with the thronging dead ? Ye build ! ye build ! but ye enter not in ; Like the tribes whom the desert devoured in their sin, From the land...fade and die, Ere its verdure gleams forth on your wearied eye. As the cloud-crowned pyramids' founders sleep Noteless and lost in oblivion deep, Ye slumber... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...must spread The boundless sea for the thronging dead ? Ye build — ye build — but ye enter not in, From the land of promise ye fade and die, Ere its...pyramid, Their noteless bones in oblivion hid, Ye slumber unmarked 'mid the desolate main, \VhHe the wonder and pride of your works remain. THE FAMILY BIBLE.... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...thronging dead ? Ye build — ye build — but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devoiir'd in their sin ; From the land of promise ye fade and...forth on your weary eye ; — As the kings of the cloud-crown d pyramid, Their noteless bones in oblivion hid, Ye slumber unmarked 'mid the desolate... | |
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Ye build — ye build — but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devoured in their sin : From the land of promise ye fade and die, Ere its verdure gleams forth on your... 
