The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Volume 3, Part 1J. Murray, 1873 |
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... poor verses were written by a youth from his leaving school to his leaving college , inclusive , we really believe this to be the most common of all occurrences ; that it happens in the life of nine men in ten who are educated in ...
... poor verses were written by a youth from his leaving school to his leaving college , inclusive , we really believe this to be the most common of all occurrences ; that it happens in the life of nine men in ten who are educated in ...
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... poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station , who does not live in a garret , but " has the sway " of Newstead Abbey . Again we say , let us be thankful ; and , with honest Sancho , bid ...
... poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station , who does not live in a garret , but " has the sway " of Newstead Abbey . Again we say , let us be thankful ; and , with honest Sancho , bid ...
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... poor is the soul which bewailing rehearses Its querulous grief , when in anguish like this . Was my eye , ' stead of tears , with red fury flakes bright'ning , Would my lips breathe a flame which no stream could assuage , On our foes ...
... poor is the soul which bewailing rehearses Its querulous grief , when in anguish like this . Was my eye , ' stead of tears , with red fury flakes bright'ning , Would my lips breathe a flame which no stream could assuage , On our foes ...
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... poor rewards can bless your deeds on earth , Doubtless await such young , exalted worth . Eneas and Ascanius shall combine To yield applause far , far surpassing mine . " Iulus then : - " By all the powers above ! By those Penates who ...
... poor rewards can bless your deeds on earth , Doubtless await such young , exalted worth . Eneas and Ascanius shall combine To yield applause far , far surpassing mine . " Iulus then : - " By all the powers above ! By those Penates who ...
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... poor trembler only fear betrays , Who hopes , yet almost dreads , to meet your praise , But all our dramatis personæ wait In fond suspense this crisis of their fate . No venal views our progress can retard , Your generous plaudits are ...
... poor trembler only fear betrays , Who hopes , yet almost dreads , to meet your praise , But all our dramatis personæ wait In fond suspense this crisis of their fate . No venal views our progress can retard , Your generous plaudits are ...
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Page 319 - 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. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 319 - But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail: And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 319 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord ! A SPIRIT PASS'D BEFORE ME.
Page 327 - Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee 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 359 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Boy was sprung to manhood: in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams: he was girt With strange and dusky aspects; he was not Himself like what he had been; on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer...
Page 6 - See how a minor can write! This poem was actually composed by a young man of eighteen, and this by one of only sixteen!» — But, alas! we all remember the poetry of Cowley at ten, and Pope at twelve; and so far from hearing, with any degree of surprise, that very poor verses were written by a youth from his leaving school to his leaving college, inclusive, we really believe this to be the most common of all occurrences; that it happens in the life- of nine men in ten who are educated in England;...
Page 293 - All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!
Page 313 - Fix'd in its own eternity. Above or love, hope, hate, or fear, It lives all passionless and pure : An age shall fleet like earthly year ; Its years as moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thoughts shall fly ; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.
Page 10 - But whatever judgment may be passed on the poems of this noble minor, it seems we must take them as we find them, and be content; for they are the last we shall ever have from him. He is, at best, he says, but an intruder into the groves of Parnassus ; he never lived in a garret, like thorough-bred poets; and "though he once roved a careless mountaineer in the Highlands of Scotland," he has not of late enjoyed this advantage.
Page 348 - Of light no likeness is bequeath'd — no name, Focus at once of all the rays of Fame ! The flash of Wit, the bright Intelligence, The beam of Song, the blaze of Eloquence, Set with their Sun, but still have left behind The enduring produce of immortal Mind ; Fruits of a genial morn, and glorious noon, A deathless part of him who died too soon.