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... fall , Yet strength was pillar'd in each massy aisle . Monastic dome ! condemn'd to uses vile ! Where Superstition once had made her den Now Paphian girls were known to sing and smile ; And monks might deem their time was come agen , If ...
... fall , Yet strength was pillar'd in each massy aisle . Monastic dome ! condemn'd to uses vile ! Where Superstition once had made her den Now Paphian girls were known to sing and smile ; And monks might deem their time was come agen , If ...
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... fall where other chieftains lead Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng , And shine in worthless lays , the theme of transient 39 song , 30 Ford Talavera XLIV . Enough of Battle's minions ! let 20 ( Canto L CHILDE HAROLD'S ...
... fall where other chieftains lead Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng , And shine in worthless lays , the theme of transient 39 song , 30 Ford Talavera XLIV . Enough of Battle's minions ! let 20 ( Canto L CHILDE HAROLD'S ...
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... fall where other chieftains lead Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng , And shine in worthless lays , the theme of transient song , 39 slave 7/2 XLI . ཨ 』 A scene where mingling 20 [ Canto L CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE .
... fall where other chieftains lead Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng , And shine in worthless lays , the theme of transient song , 39 slave 7/2 XLI . ཨ 』 A scene where mingling 20 [ Canto L CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE .
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... fall to deck some single name . In sooth ' twere sad to thwart their noble aim Who strike , blest hirelings ! for their country's good , And die , that living might have proved her shame ; Perish'd , perchance , in some domestic feud ...
... fall to deck some single name . In sooth ' twere sad to thwart their noble aim Who strike , blest hirelings ! for their country's good , And die , that living might have proved her shame ; Perish'd , perchance , in some domestic feud ...
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... sad will be thy reckoning - day , When soars Gaul's Vulture , with his wings unfurl'd , And thou shalt view thy sons in crowds to Hades hurl'd . LIII . And must they fall ? the young , Canto L ] CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE .
... sad will be thy reckoning - day , When soars Gaul's Vulture , with his wings unfurl'd , And thou shalt view thy sons in crowds to Hades hurl'd . LIII . And must they fall ? the young , Canto L ] CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE .
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Page 224 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 143 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and' far delight,— A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Page 166 - Which ties thee to thy tyrants ; and thy lot Is shameful to the nations, — most of all, Albion ! to thee : the Ocean queen should not Abandon Ocean's children ; in the fall Of Venice think of thine, despite thy watery wall. I loved her from my boyhood — she to me Was as a fairy city of the heart...
Page 110 - Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine : Yet one I would select from that proud throng, Partly because they blend me with his line, And partly that I did his sire some wrong...
Page 136 - The life she lived in; but the judge was just, And then she died on him she could not save. Their tomb was simple, and without a bust, And held within their urn one mind, one heart, one dust.
Page 194 - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Page 223 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 125 - The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
Page 192 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 137 - When elements to elements conform, And dust is as it should be, shall I not Feel all I see, less dazzling, but more warm? The bodiless thought? the Spirit of each spot? Of which, even now, I share at times the immortal lot?