The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1Carey, 1843 |
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... late been straying , Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deem'a : Not in those visions to the heart displaying Forms which it sighs but to have only dream'd , Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seem'd : Nor , having seen ...
... late been straying , Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deem'a : Not in those visions to the heart displaying Forms which it sighs but to have only dream'd , Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seem'd : Nor , having seen ...
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... late saw streaming o'er . For pleasures past I do not grieve , Nor perils gathering near ; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear . 9 . " And now I'm in the world alone , Upon the wide , wide sea : But why should ...
... late saw streaming o'er . For pleasures past I do not grieve , Nor perils gathering near ; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear . 9 . " And now I'm in the world alone , Upon the wide , wide sea : But why should ...
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... Sicily and Malta we are knocked on the head at a handsome average nightly , and not a Sicilian or Maltese is ever punished ! VOL . III . - C XXIV . Behold the hall where chiefs were late convened ANTO 1 . 17 PILGRIMAGE .
... Sicily and Malta we are knocked on the head at a handsome average nightly , and not a Sicilian or Maltese is ever punished ! VOL . III . - C XXIV . Behold the hall where chiefs were late convened ANTO 1 . 17 PILGRIMAGE .
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... late exploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the follies of Cintra . He has , indeed , done wonders ; he has perhaps changed the character of a nation , reconciled rival superstitions , and baffled an enemy who never retreated before ...
... late exploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the follies of Cintra . He has , indeed , done wonders ; he has perhaps changed the character of a nation , reconciled rival superstitions , and baffled an enemy who never retreated before ...
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... late so free as Spanish girls were seen , ( Ere War uprose in his volcanic rage , ) · With braided tresses bounding o'er the green , While on the gay dance shone Night's lover - loving Queen ? LXXXII . Oh ! many a time , and oft , had ...
... late so free as Spanish girls were seen , ( Ere War uprose in his volcanic rage , ) · With braided tresses bounding o'er the green , While on the gay dance shone Night's lover - loving Queen ? LXXXII . Oh ! many a time , and oft , had ...
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Page 105 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 104 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 190 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 190 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.
Page 472 - Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray — An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — not A groan o'er his untimely lot, — A little talk of better days, A little hope my own...
Page 66 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth...
Page 190 - Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 126 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 468 - And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left: Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp: And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing! For in these limbs its teeth remain...
Page 124 - He is an evening reveller who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still, There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil. Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.