The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 10-11A. and W. Galignani, 1826 |
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... better part , Dwelling deep in my shut and silent heart As dwells the gather'd lightning in its cloud , Encompass'd with its dark and rolling shroud , Till struck , -forth flies the all - etherial dart ! And thus at the collision of thy ...
... better part , Dwelling deep in my shut and silent heart As dwells the gather'd lightning in its cloud , Encompass'd with its dark and rolling shroud , Till struck , -forth flies the all - etherial dart ! And thus at the collision of thy ...
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... disputant on creeds , His dotage trifled well : Yet better had he neither known A bigot's shrine , nor despot's throne . 1 Milo . 2 Sylla . 3 Charles V. But thou - from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . 103.
... disputant on creeds , His dotage trifled well : Yet better had he neither known A bigot's shrine , nor despot's throne . 1 Milo . 2 Sylla . 3 Charles V. But thou - from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . 103.
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... better : -in her home , A thousand leagues from his , -her native home , She dwelt , begirt with growing infancy , Daughters and sons of beauty , -- but behold ! Upon her face there was the tint of grief , The settled shadow of an ...
... better : -in her home , A thousand leagues from his , -her native home , She dwelt , begirt with growing infancy , Daughters and sons of beauty , -- but behold ! Upon her face there was the tint of grief , The settled shadow of an ...
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... better than the gloomy errors , The weeds of nations in their last decay , When vice walks forth with her unsoften'd terrors , And mirth is madness , and but smiles to slay ; And hope is nothing but a false delay , The sick man's ...
... better than the gloomy errors , The weeds of nations in their last decay , When vice walks forth with her unsoften'd terrors , And mirth is madness , and but smiles to slay ; And hope is nothing but a false delay , The sick man's ...
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... Better , though each man's life - blood were a river , That it should flow , and overflow , than creep Through thousand lazy channels in our veins , Damm'd like the dull canal with locks and chains , And moving , as a sick man in his ...
... Better , though each man's life - blood were a river , That it should flow , and overflow , than creep Through thousand lazy channels in our veins , Damm'd like the dull canal with locks and chains , And moving , as a sick man in his ...
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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.