 A captive in the land, A stranger and a youth, He heard the king's command, He saw that writing's truth. The lamps around were bright, The prophecy in view ; He read it on that night, — The morrow proved it true. "Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom...  The works of ... lord Byron - Página 181por George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 páginas
...read it on that night, — The morrow proved it true. " Belshazza/s grave is made, His kingdom passed away ; He, in the balance weighed, Is light and worthless...The Mede is at his gate ! The Persian on his throne ! " in BOH THE SAILOR-BOY'S DREAM. IN slumbers of midnight, the sailor-boy lay ; His hammock swung... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 páginas
...morrow provM it true. " Belshazzar's grave is made, his kingdom pass'd away, He, in the balance weigh'd, is light and worthless clay. The shroud, his robe...The Mede is at his gate ' the Persian on his throne ! III.—Elegy on Spring. Now is the time for those who wisdom love, Who love to walk in virtue's flowery... | |
 | 1856 - 518 páginas
...The prophecy in view ; He read it on that night — " Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom passed away, He, in the balance weighed, Is light and worthless...The Mede is at his gate ! The Persian on his throne !" BYRON. 20. THE SHIPWRECK. As day advanced the weather seemed to abate, And then the leak they reckoned... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...prov'd it true.* " Belshazzar's grave is made, his kingdom pass'd away, He, in the balance weigh'd, is light and worthless clay. The shroud his robe of...Mede is at his gate, — the Persian on his throne !" — BYRON. THE HISTORIC PROCESSIONS. (SUGGESTED BY THE COURTS OP THE CRYSTAL PALACE.) Marching came... | |
 | John MANCE - 1859 - 168 páginas
...gore of the slain : " Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom pass'd away, He, in the balance weigh'd, Is light and worthless clay ! The shroud, his robe...The Mede is at his gate, The Persian on his throne." Thus fell the mighty Babylon, the " glory of kingdoms," but now the greatest of ruins, exhibiting,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 páginas
...Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom pass'd away, He, in the balance weigh 'd, Is light and worthless elay, The shroud, his robe of state, His canopy the stone...The Mede is at his gate ! The Persian on his throne !" ,-'47 SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS ! SUN of the sleepless ! melancholy star ! Whose tearful beam glows tremulously... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 páginas
...read it on that night, — The morrow proved it true. " Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom passed away ; He, in the balance weighed, Is light and worthless...The Mede is at his gate ! The Persian on his throne !" Ex. LXXX.— THE BURIAL OF ARNOLD* wn.ua. YE 'VE gathered to your place of prayer, With slow and... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 páginas
...proved it true. " Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom passed away, He in the balance weighed, O * Is light and worthless clay. The shroud, his robe...the stone ; The Mede is at his gate ! The Persian on the throne ! '' BYRON. [LORD BYRON was born in Holies Street, London, in 1788, and succeeded to the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 páginas
...morrow proved it true. "Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom pass'd away, He, in the balance weigh a, Is light and worthless clay. The shroud his robe of...The Persian on his throne ! " SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS. SON of the sleepless ! melancholy star! Whose tearful beam glows tremulously far, That shew'st the... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 páginas
...read it on that night, — The morrow proved it true. " Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom passed away ; He, in the balance weighed, Is light and worthless...The Mede is at his gate ! The Persian on his throne ! " THE LEPER — NP WILLIS. (Present period. American). " ROOM for the leper ! room ! " And as he... | |
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