The Complete Works of Lord Byron Including His Suppressed Poems and Others Never Before Published, Volume 1Baudry's foreign library, 1847 |
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... Heaven hath done for this delicious land ! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree ! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand ! But man would mar them with an impious hand : And when the Almighty lifts his fiercest scourge ...
... Heaven hath done for this delicious land ! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree ! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand ! But man would mar them with an impious hand : And when the Almighty lifts his fiercest scourge ...
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... heaven by making earth a hell . XXI . And here and there , as up the crags you spring , Mark many rude - carved crosses near the path : Yet deem not these devotion's offering- These are memorials frail of murderous wrath : For wheresoe ...
... heaven by making earth a hell . XXI . And here and there , as up the crags you spring , Mark many rude - carved crosses near the path : Yet deem not these devotion's offering- These are memorials frail of murderous wrath : For wheresoe ...
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... heaven to thine estate , See how the mighty shrink into a song ! Can volume , pillar , pile preserve thee great ? Or must thou trust tradition's simple tongue , When flattery sleeps with thee , and history does thee wrong ? XXXVII ...
... heaven to thine estate , See how the mighty shrink into a song ! Can volume , pillar , pile preserve thee great ? Or must thou trust tradition's simple tongue , When flattery sleeps with thee , and history does thee wrong ? XXXVII ...
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... heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see ( For one who hath no friend , no brother there ) Their rival scarfs of mix'd embroidery , Their various arms that glitter in the air ! What gallant war - hounds rouse them from their lair , And ...
... heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see ( For one who hath no friend , no brother there ) Their rival scarfs of mix'd embroidery , Their various arms that glitter in the air ! What gallant war - hounds rouse them from their lair , And ...
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... heaven , angelically kind . LX . Oh , thou Parnassus ! 23 whom I now survey , Not in the phrenzy of a dreamer's eye , Not in the fabled landscape of a lay , But soaring snow - clad through thy native sky , In the wild pomp of mountain ...
... heaven , angelically kind . LX . Oh , thou Parnassus ! 23 whom I now survey , Not in the phrenzy of a dreamer's eye , Not in the fabled landscape of a lay , But soaring snow - clad through thy native sky , In the wild pomp of mountain ...
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