The Works of Lord Byron: Including the Suppressed Poems. Complete in One VolumeA. and W. Galignani, 1828 - 718 pages |
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... o'er ocean's sullen flow , Pale in the scatter'd ranks of death , She saw the gasping warrior low . While which ne'er again many an eye , Could mark the rising orb of day , Turn'd feebly from the gory plain , Beheld in death her fading ...
... o'er ocean's sullen flow , Pale in the scatter'd ranks of death , She saw the gasping warrior low . While which ne'er again many an eye , Could mark the rising orb of day , Turn'd feebly from the gory plain , Beheld in death her fading ...
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... o'er the glade . « Perchance , forgetful of the day , a " T is his to chase the bounding roe ; Or Ocean's waves prolong his stay , Yet Oscar's bark is seldom slow . >> « Oh ! no ! » the anguish'd sire rejoin'd , Nor chase nor wave my ...
... o'er the glade . « Perchance , forgetful of the day , a " T is his to chase the bounding roe ; Or Ocean's waves prolong his stay , Yet Oscar's bark is seldom slow . >> « Oh ! no ! » the anguish'd sire rejoin'd , Nor chase nor wave my ...
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... o'er ; Silence again resumes her awful sway , And sable Horror guards the massy door . Here Desolation holds her dreary court ; What satellites declare her dismal reign ! Shrieking their dirge , ill - omened birds resort To flit their ...
... o'er ; Silence again resumes her awful sway , And sable Horror guards the massy door . Here Desolation holds her dreary court ; What satellites declare her dismal reign ! Shrieking their dirge , ill - omened birds resort To flit their ...
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... o'er the page her purity of soul , Reforms each error and refines the whole . ' Now to the Drama turn : Oh motley sight ! What precious scenes the wondering eyes invite ! Puns , and a prince within a barrel pent , 2 And DIBDIN's ...
... o'er the page her purity of soul , Reforms each error and refines the whole . ' Now to the Drama turn : Oh motley sight ! What precious scenes the wondering eyes invite ! Puns , and a prince within a barrel pent , 2 And DIBDIN's ...
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... o'er the town , I i To sanction vice , and hunt decorum down : Let wedded strumpets languish o'er Deshayes , And bless the promise which his form displays ; While Gayton bounds before the enraptured looks Of boary marquises and ...
... o'er the town , I i To sanction vice , and hunt decorum down : Let wedded strumpets languish o'er Deshayes , And bless the promise which his form displays ; While Gayton bounds before the enraptured looks Of boary marquises and ...
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ADAH AHOLIBAMAH ANAH ANGIOLINA ARBACES ARNOLD aught BARBARIGO bear beauty behold BELESES beneath BENINTENDE blood bosom breast breath brow CAIN CALENDARO CESAR chief dare dark dead death deeds deep DOGE dost dread earth fame father fear feel GABOR gaze Giaour Greece Greek hand hath hear heard heart heaven honour hope hour IDENSTEIN ISRAEL BERTUCCIO JACOPO FOSCARI JAPHET JOSEPHINE king leave less LIONI live look Lord Byron LOREDANO LUCIFER MANFRED MARINA Marino Faliero Michel Steno mortal mountains MYRRHA ne'er never night noble Note o'er once palace PANIA pass'd Petrarch prince SALEMENES SARDANAPALUS scarce scene seem'd shore SIEGENDORF sire slave smile soul spirit Stanza STRALENHEIM stranger sword tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought ULRIC unto Venice voice walls wave WERNER words wouldst youth εἰς καὶ τὴν τὸ
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Page 60 - Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 65 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Page 210 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray; An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — not A groan o'er his untimely lot...
Page 64 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Page 62 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round : The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here ; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! LVI. By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath...
Page 238 - gin to fear that thou art past all aid From me and from my calling; yet so young, I still would— Man. Look on me! there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness, Some of disease, and some insanity, And some of wither'd or of broken hearts; For this last is a malady which slays More than are number'd in the lists of Fate,...
Page 62 - And peasant girls, with deep blue eyes, And hands which offer early flowers, Walk smiling o'er this paradise; Above, the frequent feudal towers Through green leaves lift their walls of gray, And many a rock which steeply lowers, And noble arch in proud decay, Look o'er this vale of vintage bowers; But one thing want these banks of Rhine, — Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine!
Page 230 - The future, till the past be gulfd in darkness, It is not of my search. — My mother Earth ! And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains, Why are ye beautiful ? I cannot love ye.
Page 209 - And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when winds were high And wanton in the happy sky; And then the very rock hath...
Page 66 - ... 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! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.