The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 16J. Murray, 1835 - Poets, English |
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... fair Stirr❜d with her dream , as rose - leaves with the air ; ( ' ) XXX . Or as the stirring of a deep clear stream Within an Alpine hollow , when the wind Walks o'er it , was she shaken by the dream , The mystical usurper of the mind ...
... fair Stirr❜d with her dream , as rose - leaves with the air ; ( ' ) XXX . Or as the stirring of a deep clear stream Within an Alpine hollow , when the wind Walks o'er it , was she shaken by the dream , The mystical usurper of the mind ...
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... fair , Till slowly charged with thunder they display Terror to earth , and tempest to the air , Had held till now her soft and milky way ; But overwrought with passion and despair , The fire burst forth from her Numidian veins , Even as ...
... fair , Till slowly charged with thunder they display Terror to earth , and tempest to the air , Had held till now her soft and milky way ; But overwrought with passion and despair , The fire burst forth from her Numidian veins , Even as ...
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... fair Venus , but for ever fair ; ( 1 ) Vol . XII . p . 211. ) at the age of eighty years , when " Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him ? " Before I was sixteen years of age , I was witness to a melancholy instance ...
... fair Venus , but for ever fair ; ( 1 ) Vol . XII . p . 211. ) at the age of eighty years , when " Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him ? " Before I was sixteen years of age , I was witness to a melancholy instance ...
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... fair and sinless child of sin ; ( 1 ) But closed its little being without light , And went down to the grave unborn , wherein Blossom and bough lie wither'd with one blight ; In vain the dews of Heaven descend above The bleeding flower ...
... fair and sinless child of sin ; ( 1 ) But closed its little being without light , And went down to the grave unborn , wherein Blossom and bough lie wither'd with one blight ; In vain the dews of Heaven descend above The bleeding flower ...
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... fair , No stone is there to show , no tongue to say What was ; no dirge , except the hollow sea's , ( 1 ) Mourns o'er the beauty of the Cyclades . LXXIII . But many a Greek maid in a loving song Sighs o'er her name ; and many an ...
... fair , No stone is there to show , no tongue to say What was ; no dirge , except the hollow sea's , ( 1 ) Mourns o'er the beauty of the Cyclades . LXXIII . But many a Greek maid in a loving song Sighs o'er her name ; and many an ...
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Page 137 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...
Page 6 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep...
Page 16 - ... we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Page 331 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Page 6 - In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal...
Page 7 - Some have accused me of a strange design Against the creed and morals of the land, And trace it in this poem every line: I don't pretend that I quite understand My own meaning when I would be very fine...
Page 21 - It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so; A gentlemanly distance, not too near, If you have got a former friend for foe; But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.
Page 136 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 176 - They accuse me - Me - the present writer of The present poem - of - I know not what A tendency to under-rate and scoff At human power and virtue, and all that; And this they say in language rather rough. Good God! I wonder what they would be at! I say no more than hath been said in Dante's Verse, and by Solomon and by Cervantes...
Page 7 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.