The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 10-11A. and W. Galignani, 1826 |
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... On Jordan's banks Jephtha's daughter Oh ! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom My soul is dark I saw thee weep Thy days are done . Page . 7 36 43 . 53 63 77 • 78 ib . 79 80 81 ib . 82 83 Song of Saul before his last battle Saul • <
... On Jordan's banks Jephtha's daughter Oh ! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom My soul is dark I saw thee weep Thy days are done . Page . 7 36 43 . 53 63 77 • 78 ib . 79 80 81 ib . 82 83 Song of Saul before his last battle Saul • <
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... Darkness Churchill's grave Prometheus Ode Windsor Poetics A sketch from private life Page . • 178 179 180 ib . 181 182 ib . 183 184 185 186 188 189 191 193 197 • 198 • 200 201 202 ib . 204 207 208 210 213 214 Carmina Byronis in C. Elgin ...
... Darkness Churchill's grave Prometheus Ode Windsor Poetics A sketch from private life Page . • 178 179 180 ib . 181 182 ib . 183 184 185 186 188 189 191 193 197 • 198 • 200 201 202 ib . 204 207 208 210 213 214 Carmina Byronis in C. Elgin ...
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... darkness , making his bright realm appear . » > He cut his brethren's hands off at these words , And left them to the savage beasts and birds . LV . Then to the abbey they went on together , Where waited them the abbot in great doubt ...
... darkness , making his bright realm appear . » > He cut his brethren's hands off at these words , And left them to the savage beasts and birds . LV . Then to the abbey they went on together , Where waited them the abbot in great doubt ...
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... dark ! » but here the muse with due decorum halts , And lends her longest petticoat to Waltz . Observant travellers ! of every time ; Ye quartos ! publish'd upon every clime ; O say , shall dull Romaika's heavy round , Fandango's ...
... dark ! » but here the muse with due decorum halts , And lends her longest petticoat to Waltz . Observant travellers ! of every time ; Ye quartos ! publish'd upon every clime ; O say , shall dull Romaika's heavy round , Fandango's ...
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... dark and rolling shroud , Till struck , -forth flies the all - etherial dart ! And thus at the collision of thy name The vivid thought still flashes through my frame . And for a moment all things as they were Flit by me ; they are gone ...
... dark and rolling shroud , Till struck , -forth flies the all - etherial dart ! And thus at the collision of thy name The vivid thought still flashes through my frame . And for a moment all things as they were Flit by me ; they are gone ...
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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.