The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His WorksT. Davison, 1824 - 212 pages |
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... Light was the touch , but it thrill'd to the bone , And shot a chillness to his heart , Which fixed him beyond the power to start . Though slight was the grasp so mortal cold , He could not loose him from its hold ; But never did clasp ...
... Light was the touch , but it thrill'd to the bone , And shot a chillness to his heart , Which fixed him beyond the power to start . Though slight was the grasp so mortal cold , He could not loose him from its hold ; But never did clasp ...
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... light , Lifeless , but life - like , and awful to sight ; As they seem , through the dimness , about to come down From the shadowy wall where their images frown ; Fearfully flitting to and fro , As the gusts on the tapestry come and go ...
... light , Lifeless , but life - like , and awful to sight ; As they seem , through the dimness , about to come down From the shadowy wall where their images frown ; Fearfully flitting to and fro , As the gusts on the tapestry come and go ...
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... light- The Sun in human limbs array'd , and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot - the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain , and might , And ...
... light- The Sun in human limbs array'd , and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot - the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain , and might , And ...
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... light ! THE DEMON OF BATTLE . Hark ! heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note ? Sounds not the clang of conflict on the heath ? Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote ; Nor saved your brethren ere they sank beneath Tyrants and ...
... light ! THE DEMON OF BATTLE . Hark ! heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note ? Sounds not the clang of conflict on the heath ? Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote ; Nor saved your brethren ere they sank beneath Tyrants and ...
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... light - brown locks so graceful in their flow Now rose like startled vipers o'er his brow . Still as a statue , with his lips comprest To stifle even the breath within his breast , Fast by the rock , all menacing but mute , He stood ...
... light - brown locks so graceful in their flow Now rose like startled vipers o'er his brow . Still as a statue , with his lips comprest To stifle even the breath within his breast , Fast by the rock , all menacing but mute , He stood ...
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Page 66 - 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 52 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page 66 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come!
Page 148 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 146 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 66 - On Suli's rock and Parga's shore Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore ; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heraclcidan blood might own.
Page 117 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
Page 63 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Page 150 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom...
Page 164 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been...