Childe Harold: Canto the Fourth, The Prisoner of Chillon and MazepaHoughton Mifflin Company, 1909 - 136 pages |
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... darkness and dismay , Deeming themselves predestined to a doom Which is not of the pangs that pass away ; Making the sun like blood , the earth a tomb , The tomb a hell , and hell itself a murkier gloom . 310 XXXV . Ferrara , in thy ...
... darkness and dismay , Deeming themselves predestined to a doom Which is not of the pangs that pass away ; Making the sun like blood , the earth a tomb , The tomb a hell , and hell itself a murkier gloom . 310 XXXV . Ferrara , in thy ...
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... darkness , until right e ; 835 And wrong are accidents , and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too 840 bright , And their free thoughts be crimes , and earth have too much light . XCIV . And thus they plod in sluggish ...
... darkness , until right e ; 835 And wrong are accidents , and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too 840 bright , And their free thoughts be crimes , and earth have too much light . XCIV . And thus they plod in sluggish ...
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... dark eye , prophetic of the doom Heaven gives its favourites — early death ; yet shed A sunset charm around her , and illume With hectic light , the Hesperus of the dead , Of her consuming cheek the autumnal leaf - like red . CIII ...
... dark eye , prophetic of the doom Heaven gives its favourites — early death ; yet shed A sunset charm around her , and illume With hectic light , the Hesperus of the dead , Of her consuming cheek the autumnal leaf - like red . CIII ...
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... darkness ' native site , Answering each other on the Palatine , With their large eyes all glistening gray and bright , And sailing pinions . Upon such a shrine What are our petty griefs ? -let me not number mine . CVII . Cypress and ivy ...
... darkness ' native site , Answering each other on the Palatine , With their large eyes all glistening gray and bright , And sailing pinions . Upon such a shrine What are our petty griefs ? -let me not number mine . CVII . Cypress and ivy ...
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... dark centuries of shame The friend of Petrarch - hope of Italy- Rienzi ! last of Romans ! While the tree Of freedom's wither'd trunk puts forth a leaf Even for thy tomb a garland let it be 1025 The forum's champion , and the people's ...
... dark centuries of shame The friend of Petrarch - hope of Italy- Rienzi ! last of Romans ! While the tree Of freedom's wither'd trunk puts forth a leaf Even for thy tomb a garland let it be 1025 The forum's champion , and the people's ...
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Page 63 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 63 - 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
Page 74 - But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird, I could not wish for thine! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise; For — Heaven forgive that thought! the while...
Page 64 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — '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 62 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Page 49 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 49 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday — All this rush'd with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged? Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 28 - But Rome is as the desert, where we steer Stumbling o'er recollections: now we clap Our hands, and cry, " Eureka ! it is clear — " When but some false mirage of ruin rises near.
Page 74 - Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery: But then by dull degrees came back My senses to their wonted track, I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before...
Page 2 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy!