The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 10-11A. and W. Galignani, 1826 |
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... beautiful , and I not blind , Hath been the sin which shuts me from mankind ; But let them go , or torture as they will , My heart can multiply thine image still ; Successful love may sate itself away , The wretched are the faithful ...
... beautiful , and I not blind , Hath been the sin which shuts me from mankind ; But let them go , or torture as they will , My heart can multiply thine image still ; Successful love may sate itself away , The wretched are the faithful ...
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... beautiful , That God alone was to be seen in heaven . V. A change came o'er the spirit of my dream . The lady of his love was wed with one Who did not love her better : -in her home , A thousand leagues from his , -her native home , She ...
... beautiful , That God alone was to be seen in heaven . V. A change came o'er the spirit of my dream . The lady of his love was wed with one Who did not love her better : -in her home , A thousand leagues from his , -her native home , She ...
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... These Verses were given by Lord Byron to Mr Power , Strand , who has published them , with very beautiful music by Sir John Stevenson . 0 0 The magnet of their course is gone , or only 186 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . Stanzas for music.
... These Verses were given by Lord Byron to Mr Power , Strand , who has published them , with very beautiful music by Sir John Stevenson . 0 0 The magnet of their course is gone , or only 186 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . Stanzas for music.
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... beautiful in death are they Who proudly fall in her array ; oh goddess ! may we be For evermore with them or thee ! And soon , NAPOLEON'S FAREWELL . [ FROM THE FRENCH . ] FAREWELL to the land where the gloom of my glory Arose and o ...
... beautiful in death are they Who proudly fall in her array ; oh goddess ! may we be For evermore with them or thee ! And soon , NAPOLEON'S FAREWELL . [ FROM THE FRENCH . ] FAREWELL to the land where the gloom of my glory Arose and o ...
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... beautiful of harbours , and yet I cannot but think that the twenty sail of the line , some of one hundred and forty guns , rendered it more << poetical » > by day in the sun , and by night perhaps still more , for the Turks illuminate ...
... beautiful of harbours , and yet I cannot but think that the twenty sail of the line , some of one hundred and forty guns , rendered it more << poetical » > by day in the sun , and by night perhaps still more , for the Turks illuminate ...
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Page 198 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay...
Page 101 - TWAS twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail. Thus to their hopeless eyes...
Page 189 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 94 - 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 191 - Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess: The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down; It cannot feel for others...
Page 191 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Page 77 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 95 - 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 124 - ... 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...
Page 114 - The other father had a weaklier child, Of a soft cheek, and aspect delicate ; But the boy bore up long, and with a mild And patient spirit held aloof his fate ; Little he said, and now and then he smiled, As if to win a part from off the weight He saw increasing on his father's heart, With the deep, deadly thought, that they must part.