 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 页
...lips of little PauL Hayard Taylor. XIIL LINES ON A SKELETON. ~T)EHOLD this ruin !— 'Twas a skull JD Once of ethereal spirit full ! This narrow cell was...retreat ; This space was Thought's mysterious seat 4 What beauteous pictures filled this spot — What dreams of pleasure long forgot ! Nor Love, nor... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 396 页
...priest. 12 BE-HEST'. Command ; injunction. CIV. — LINES ON A SKELETON. 1. BEHOLD this ruin ! 'Tis a skull, Once of ethereal spirit full. This narrow cell was Life's retreat; This space was Thought's mysteiious seat. What beauteous pictures filled this spot ! What dreams of pleasure, long forgot !... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - 1869 - 208 页
...incognito, and, we believe, has never been discovered.] BEHOLD this ruin ! 'Twas a skull Once of etherial spirit full. » This narrow cell was Life's retreat,...space was Thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot, What dreams of pleasure long forgot 7 Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear,... | |
 | John Richard Houlding, Old Boomerang - 1870 - 456 页
...question are so beautiful, that I need not hesitate to transcribe them. LINES ON A SKELETON. Behold this ruin ! 'Twas a skull, Once of ethereal spirit...space was thought's mysterious seat ! What beauteous visions filled this spot ! What dreams of pleasure long forgot ; Nor hope, nor love, nor joy, nor fear,... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 页
...authorship has never been ascertained. We iwlieve the whole of it is comprised in the five stanzas. BEHOLD this ruin ! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit...space was thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot; What dreams of pleasure long forgot ! Nor hope, nor love, nor joy, nor fear,... | |
 | 1871 - 476 页
...And his spirit to Jove who bestowed it. HORACE SMITH. Lines on a Skeleton. BEHOLD this ruin ! 't is a skull, Once of ethereal spirit full ! This narrow...thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous pictures filled this spot — What dreams of pleasure, long forgot ! Nor grief, nor joy, nor hope, nor fear,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 页
...author preserved his incognito, and, we believe, has never been discovered.] BEHOLD this ruin ! T was e, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals...brush it, till I prow aware Who wants me, and wide o visions filled this spot, What dreams of pleasure long forgot ? Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear,... | |
 | St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1872 - 362 页
...and a vain effort made to ascertain the author, even by offering a reward of fifty guineas:— BEHOLD this ruin ! Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full....space was thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot With dreams of pleasure long forgot! Nor hope nor joy, nor love nor fear,... | |
 | 1872 - 602 页
...a vain effort made to ascertain the author, even by ottering a reward of fifty guineas : — BEHOLD this ruin ! Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full....space was thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot With drcnms of pleasure long forgot ! Nor hope nor joy, nor love nor fear,... | |
 | 1872 - 782 页
...a vain effort mude to ascertain the author, even by offering a reward of fifty guineas: — BEHOLD this ruin ! Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full....space was thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot With drr-nms of pleasure long forgot ! Nor hope nor joy, nor love nor fear,... | |
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Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full. This narrow cell was Life's retreat: This space was Thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot! What dreams of pleasure long forgot! Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear Have left one... 
