The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His WorksT. Davison, 1824 - 212 pages |
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... SLEEPING CHILD . He smiles and sleeps ! -Sleep on And smile , thou little , young inheritor Of a world scarce less young : sleep on , and smile ! Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering And innocent ! thou hast not pluck'd ...
... SLEEPING CHILD . He smiles and sleeps ! -Sleep on And smile , thou little , young inheritor Of a world scarce less young : sleep on , and smile ! Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering And innocent ! thou hast not pluck'd ...
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... sleeps well : The fickle reek of popular breath , the tongue Of hollow counsel , the false oracle , Which from the birth of monarchy , hath rung Its knell in princely ears , till the o'erstung Nations have armed in madness , the strange ...
... sleeps well : The fickle reek of popular breath , the tongue Of hollow counsel , the false oracle , Which from the birth of monarchy , hath rung Its knell in princely ears , till the o'erstung Nations have armed in madness , the strange ...
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... sleep when nations ' quarrels Plough the root up of your laurels ? Ye who wept o'er Carthage burning , Weep not - strike ! for Rome is mourning * ! * Scipio , the second Africanus , is said to have repeated a verse of Homer , and wept o ...
... sleep when nations ' quarrels Plough the root up of your laurels ? Ye who wept o'er Carthage burning , Weep not - strike ! for Rome is mourning * ! * Scipio , the second Africanus , is said to have repeated a verse of Homer , and wept o ...
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... sleep there lovingly : the rocks , The permanent crags , tell here of Love , who sought In them a refuge from the worldly shocks , Which stir and sting the soul with hope that woos , then mocks . Clarens ! by heavenly feet thy paths are ...
... sleep there lovingly : the rocks , The permanent crags , tell here of Love , who sought In them a refuge from the worldly shocks , Which stir and sting the soul with hope that woos , then mocks . Clarens ! by heavenly feet thy paths are ...
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... sleep " in those Who gazed upon her cheek's transcendant hue , Her Attic forehead , and her Phidian nose : Few angles were there in her form , ' tis true , Thinner she might have been and yet scarce lose ; Yet , after all , ' twould ...
... sleep " in those Who gazed upon her cheek's transcendant hue , Her Attic forehead , and her Phidian nose : Few angles were there in her form , ' tis true , Thinner she might have been and yet scarce lose ; Yet , after all , ' twould ...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works Alfred Howard,Baron George Gordon Byron Byron No preview available - 2016 |
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arms art thou aught Ave Maria beam beauty behold beneath blest blood blue bosom breast breath brow capital punishments Carthage charm cheek Clarens clouds dark dead death deep dread dream e'er eagle passes earth Egeria eternal face fair fear feel flowers gaze gentle GIAOUR glance glow gondolier grave grief hand hath heart heaven hope hour human clay JUNGFRAU Kaled knew light lips living lone look look'd mortal mountains Myrrha ne'er never night o'er once pale passion pause pride rill Rome rose round Samian wine scarce seem'd Seraph shine shone shore sigh sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit stamp'd stars stood sweet tears tender thee thine things thou art thought trembling twas twill waters wave weep wert Whate'er wild wind wing wither'd youth Zuleika
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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...