The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes, Volume 3Suttaby, 1885 |
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... thine , like pagan Plato's bed , 27 Some merry manuscript of mimes , when dead . Now to the Drama let us bend our eyes , Where fetter'd by whig Walpole low she lies ; 28 Corruption foil'd her , for she fear'd her glance ; Decorum left ...
... thine , like pagan Plato's bed , 27 Some merry manuscript of mimes , when dead . Now to the Drama let us bend our eyes , Where fetter'd by whig Walpole low she lies ; 28 Corruption foil'd her , for she fear'd her glance ; Decorum left ...
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... thine mine evil eye discerns , " Alas ! I cannot strike at wretched kernes . " 45 Inhuman Saxon ! wilt thou then resign A muse and heart by choice so wholly thine ? Dear d - d contemner of my schoolboy songs , Hast thou no vengeance for ...
... thine mine evil eye discerns , " Alas ! I cannot strike at wretched kernes . " 45 Inhuman Saxon ! wilt thou then resign A muse and heart by choice so wholly thine ? Dear d - d contemner of my schoolboy songs , Hast thou no vengeance for ...
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... thine , when Hecate's glare , Check'd by thy columns , fell more sadly fair O'er the chill marble , where the startling tread Thrills the lone heart like echoes from the dead . Long had I mused , and treasured every trace The wreck of ...
... thine , when Hecate's glare , Check'd by thy columns , fell more sadly fair O'er the chill marble , where the startling tread Thrills the lone heart like echoes from the dead . Long had I mused , and treasured every trace The wreck of ...
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... thine . Hear then in silence Pallas ' stern behest ; Hear and believe , for time will tell the rest . “ First on the head of him who did this deed My curse shall light , —on him and all his seed : Without one spark of intellectual fire ...
... thine . Hear then in silence Pallas ' stern behest ; Hear and believe , for time will tell the rest . “ First on the head of him who did this deed My curse shall light , —on him and all his seed : Without one spark of intellectual fire ...
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... of ascending flames Shake his red shadow o'er the startled Thames ? Nay , frown not , Albion ! for the torch was thine That lit such pyres from Tagus to the Rhine : Now should they burst on thy devoted coast , Go 68 THE CURSE OF MINERVA .
... of ascending flames Shake his red shadow o'er the startled Thames ? Nay , frown not , Albion ! for the torch was thine That lit such pyres from Tagus to the Rhine : Now should they burst on thy devoted coast , Go 68 THE CURSE OF MINERVA .
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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...