The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes, Volume 3Suttaby, 1885 |
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... night , nor tastes of ease , Till the dropp'd curtain gives a glad release : Why this , and more , he suffers- -can ye guess ! - Because it costs him dear , and makes him dress ! So prosper eunuchs from Etruscan schools ; Give us but ...
... night , nor tastes of ease , Till the dropp'd curtain gives a glad release : Why this , and more , he suffers- -can ye guess ! - Because it costs him dear , and makes him dress ! So prosper eunuchs from Etruscan schools ; Give us but ...
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... night , to read the works of Greece . But our good fathers never bent their brains To heathen Greek , content with native strains . The few who read a page , or used a pen , Were satisfied with Chaucer and old Ben ; The jokes and ...
... night , to read the works of Greece . But our good fathers never bent their brains To heathen Greek , content with native strains . The few who read a page , or used a pen , Were satisfied with Chaucer and old Ben ; The jokes and ...
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... night ; Wild as the wife of alderman or peer , Now for his grace , and now a grenadier ! Her eyes beseem , her heart belies , her zone , Ice in a crowd , and lava when alone . If verse be studied with some show of art , Kind Nature ...
... night ; Wild as the wife of alderman or peer , Now for his grace , and now a grenadier ! Her eyes beseem , her heart belies , her zone , Ice in a crowd , and lava when alone . If verse be studied with some show of art , Kind Nature ...
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... night asserts her silent reign ; 2 No murky vapour , herald of the storm , Hides her fair face , or girds her glowing form . With cornice glimmering as the moonbeams play , There the white column greets her grateful ray , And bright ...
... night asserts her silent reign ; 2 No murky vapour , herald of the storm , Hides her fair face , or girds her glowing form . With cornice glimmering as the moonbeams play , There the white column greets her grateful ray , And bright ...
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... night devotes , despite of spur and boots ; A sight unmatch'd since Orpheus and his brutes : Hail , spirit - stirring waltz ! -beneath whose banners A modern hero fought for modish manners ; On Hounslow's heath to rival Wellesley's fame ...
... night devotes , despite of spur and boots ; A sight unmatch'd since Orpheus and his brutes : Hail , spirit - stirring waltz ! -beneath whose banners A modern hero fought for modish manners ; On Hounslow's heath to rival Wellesley's fame ...
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Page 158 - twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scatter'd at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs ; the hill Was crown'd with a peculiar diadem Of trees, in circular array, so fix'd, Not by the sport of nature, but of man...
Page 127 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 149 - The envious who but breathe in others' pain, Behold the host ! delighting to deprave, Who track the steps of Glory to the grave, Watch every fault that daring Genius owes Half to the ardour which its birth bestows, Distort the truth— accumulate the lie And pile the Pyramid of Calumny ! ' These are his portion — but if...
Page 127 - Where thy head so oft hath lain, While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again; Would that breast by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show!
Page 59 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Page 121 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 101 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 129 - Though his care she must forego ? When her little hands shall press thee, When her lip to thine is...
Page 105 - IF THAT HIGH WORLD. IP that high world, which lies beyond Our own, surviving Love endears ; If there the cherish'd heart be fond, The eye the same, except in tears — How welcome those untrodden spheres ! How sweet this very hour to die ! To soar from earth, and find all fears Lost in thy light — Eternity...
Page 160 - She was serene and smiling then, and yet She knew she was by him beloved, — she knew, For quickly comes such knowledge, that his heart Was darken'd with her shadow, and she saw That he was wretched, but she saw not all. He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced...