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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... soul When we two parted Stanzas for music • Fare thee well To *** • Ode ( from the French ) From the French · On the Star of the Legion of Honour Napoleon's Farewell Sonnet Written on a blank leaf of The Pleasures of Memory . Stanzas to ...
... soul When we two parted Stanzas for music • Fare thee well To *** • Ode ( from the French ) From the French · On the Star of the Legion of Honour Napoleon's Farewell Sonnet Written on a blank leaf of The Pleasures of Memory . Stanzas to ...
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... soul : such fear The giants caused us , that the way was lost By which we could pursue a fit career In search of Jesus and the saintly host ; And your departure breeds such sorrow here , That comfortless we all are to our cost ; But ...
... soul : such fear The giants caused us , that the way was lost By which we could pursue a fit career In search of Jesus and the saintly host ; And your departure breeds such sorrow here , That comfortless we all are to our cost ; But ...
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... soul's child ! Which ever playing round me came and smiled , And woo'd me from myself with thy sweet sight , Thou too art gone - and so is my delight : And therefore do I weep and inly bleed With this last bruise upon a broken reed ...
... soul's child ! Which ever playing round me came and smiled , And woo'd me from myself with thy sweet sight , Thou too art gone - and so is my delight : And therefore do I weep and inly bleed With this last bruise upon a broken reed ...
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... soul was drunk with love , which did pervade And mingle with whate'er I saw on earth ; Of objects all inanimate I made Idols , and out of wild and lonely flowers , And rocks , whereby they grew , a paradise , Where I did lay me down ...
... soul was drunk with love , which did pervade And mingle with whate'er I saw on earth ; Of objects all inanimate I made Idols , and out of wild and lonely flowers , And rocks , whereby they grew , a paradise , Where I did lay me down ...
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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.