 But I have lived, and have not lived in vain : My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain, But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage: Italy - Page 100by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...utterance, save the shrug or sigh, Deal round to happy fools its speechless obloquy . CXXXVI I. Hut am in winter, though the chill He but a moment's. pensh even in conquering pain ; But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...without utteranee, save the shrug or sigh, Deal round to happy fools its speeehless obloquy. CXXXvII. But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind may lose its foree, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in eonquering pain, But there is that within me... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1882 - 432 pages
...utterance, save the shrug or sigh, Deal round to happy fools its speechless obloquy. " But I have hved, and have not lived in vain : My mind may lose its...Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In h?nrts alt rocky... | |
 | Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1924 - 516 pages
...Have I not had my brain seared, my heart riven, Hopes sapped, name blighted, Life's life hid away ? But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire ". *** In was on July 1 — having made a beginning on June 26 — that he sent to Murray in a letter... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...Eternity refuses to yield the human value of his life even to his own vision of all-consuming sin: But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind...Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remember'd tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their soften'd spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky... | |
 | John Louis DiGaetani, Josef P. Sirefman - Music - 1994 - 322 pages
...premiere did include the more traditionally quoted "epitaph" Byron wrote for himself in this same passage: But there is that within me which shall tire Torture...Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain; Bat there is that within me which snail tire Tortare hon in mine ; We were and are — I am, even as thou artBeings who ne'er each other can res remember' cl tone of a mate lyre, Shall on their soften'd spirits sink, and move In heart« all rocky... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - Poetry - 1995 - 276 pages
...poet that he will survive as his own more malleable monumentum acre perennius: But there is that in me which shall tire Torture and time, and breathe...Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky... | |
 | Kay Redfield Jamison - Psychology - 1996 - 388 pages
...would have appreciated the two lines chosen for his epitaph, taken from a stanza in Childe Harold: But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind...Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...without utterance, save the shrug or sigh, Deal round to happy fools its speechless obloquy. CXXXVII 1225 But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind...tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire; cxxxv 555 CHILDE HAROLD S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO IV CXXXVIII The seal is set. - Now welcome, thou dread... | |
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