"Unlamented" Quotes from Famous Books
... besiege your gates. There passengers shall stand, and pointing say, (While the long funerals blacken all the way) 40 'Lo, these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And cursed with hearts unknowing how to yield.' Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, ... — The Poetical Works Of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1 • Alexander Pope et al
... nobles, ane and a', For loyalty attainted, A nameless bardie 's wae to see Your sorrows unlamented; For if your fathers ne'er had fought For heirs of ancient royalty, Ye 're down the day that might hae been At the top o' honour's ... — The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various |