Manfred,: A Dramatic Poem, Volume 2John Murray, Albemarle-Street., 1817 - 73 pages |
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... singing . ] FIRST SPIRIT . Mortal ! to thy bidding bow'd , From my mansion in the cloud , Which the breath of twilight builds , And the summer's sun - set gilds With the azure and vermilion , Which is mix'd for SCENE I. -9 MANFRED .
... singing . ] FIRST SPIRIT . Mortal ! to thy bidding bow'd , From my mansion in the cloud , Which the breath of twilight builds , And the summer's sun - set gilds With the azure and vermilion , Which is mix'd for SCENE I. -9 MANFRED .
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... And the lakes of bitumen Rise boilingly higher ; Where the roots of the Andes Strike deep in the earth , As their summits to heaven Shoot soaringly forth ; I have quitted my birth - place , Thy bidding SCENE I. 11 MANFRED .
... And the lakes of bitumen Rise boilingly higher ; Where the roots of the Andes Strike deep in the earth , As their summits to heaven Shoot soaringly forth ; I have quitted my birth - place , Thy bidding SCENE I. 11 MANFRED .
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... bidding to bide- Thy spell hath subdued me , Thy will be my guide ! FIFTH SPIRIT . I am the Rider of the wind , The Stirrer of the storm ; The hurricane I left behind Is yet with lightning warm ; To speed to thee , o'er shore and sea I ...
... bidding to bide- Thy spell hath subdued me , Thy will be my guide ! FIFTH SPIRIT . I am the Rider of the wind , The Stirrer of the storm ; The hurricane I left behind Is yet with lightning warm ; To speed to thee , o'er shore and sea I ...
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... winds , thy star , Are at thy beck and bidding , Child of Clay ! Before thee at thy quest their spirits are- What wouldst thou with us , son of mortals - say ? MAN . Forgetfulness- FIRST SPIRIT . Of what - of SCENE I. 13 MANFRED .
... winds , thy star , Are at thy beck and bidding , Child of Clay ! Before thee at thy quest their spirits are- What wouldst thou with us , son of mortals - say ? MAN . Forgetfulness- FIRST SPIRIT . Of what - of SCENE I. 13 MANFRED .
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... bidding , it may help thee to thy wishes . MAN . I will not swear - Obey ! and whom ? the spirits Whose presence I command , and be the slave , Of those who served me - Never ! WITCH . Is this all ? Hast thou no gentler answer - Yet ...
... bidding , it may help thee to thy wishes . MAN . I will not swear - Obey ! and whom ? the spirits Whose presence I command , and be the slave , Of those who served me - Never ! WITCH . Is this all ? Hast thou no gentler answer - Yet ...
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answer ASTARTE Author beautiful beneath bidding Boards breath Castle of Manfred CHAMOIS HUNTER clay clouds death DESTINIES doth dread dwell earth Eleuthera Engravings Enter the ABBOT Exit MANFRED eyes fatal France French Glory to Arimanes Hast thou hath heart heaven hell HERMAN hour HURST illustrated JOHN large Paper late live London Longman look LORD LORD BYRON MANUEL Memoirs Mix'd mortal mountain Mysore NEMESIS night o'er ocean Octavo ORME PACIFIC OCEAN Pausanias pause PHAN Plates POEM Poet Laureate Portraits Price 21 printed Quarto REES rise ROBERT SOUTHEY ROBERT WALPOLE Royal Royal Navy SCENE Second Edition slumber Small 8vo soul speak SPIRIT star sunbow's things thou art thou dost thou wilt thoughts thy wish thyself torrent torture Translated TRAVELS UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH URINARY ORGANS voice vols Volume wandering wave WILLIAM WILLIAM COXE WITCH wouldst thou wreck ΜΑΝ Аввот
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Page 68 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin; from afar The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber: and, More near, from out the Caesars...
Page 10 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 33 - tis but the same; My pang shall find a voice. From my youth upwards My spirit walk'd not with the souls of men, Nor look'd upon the earth with human eyes ; The thirst of their ambition was not mine, The aim of their existence was not mine ; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger ; though I wore the form, I had no sympathy with breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of clay that girded me Was there but one who but of her anon.
Page 31 - It is not noon — the sunbow's rays ' still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 69 - But the gladiators' bloody Circus stands, A noble wreck in ruinous perfection ! While Caesar's chambers, and the Augustan halls, Grovel on earth in indistinct decay.
Page 61 - Look on me! there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age...
Page 19 - ... tears I did distil An essence which hath strength to kill ; From thy own heart I then did wring The black blood in its blackest spring ; From thy own smile I...
Page 36 - She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe : nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I hod not ; And tenderness — but that I had for her ; Humility — and that I never had. Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own— I loved her, and destroy'd her ! Witch.
Page 51 - Hear me, hear me — Astarte! —my beloved! speak to me: I have so much endured — so much endure — Look on me ! the grave hath not changed thee more Than I am changed for thee. Thou lovedst me Too much, as I loved thee : we were not made To torture thus each other, though it were The deadliest sin to love as we have loved.
Page 8 - Philosophy and science, and the springs Of wonder, and the wisdom of the world, I have essay'd, and in my mind there is A power to make these subject to itself — But they avail not...