The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2Knight and Lacey, 1823 |
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Page 7
... death is fled , The first dark day of nothingness , The last of danger and distress , ( Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers , ) And marked the mild angelic air , The rapture of repose that's there ...
... death is fled , The first dark day of nothingness , The last of danger and distress , ( Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers , ) And marked the mild angelic air , The rapture of repose that's there ...
Page 8
... death , That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom , That hue which haunts it to the tomb , Expression's last receding ray , A gilded halo hovering round decay , The farewell beam of feeling past away ...
... death , That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom , That hue which haunts it to the tomb , Expression's last receding ray , A gilded halo hovering round decay , The farewell beam of feeling past away ...
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... Death pursued ; But in that instant o'er his soul Winters of Memory seemed to roll , And gather in that drop of time A life of pain , an age of crime . O'er him who loves , or hates , or fears , Such moment pours the grief of years ...
... Death pursued ; But in that instant o'er his soul Winters of Memory seemed to roll , And gather in that drop of time A life of pain , an age of crime . O'er him who loves , or hates , or fears , Such moment pours the grief of years ...
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... death- Dark tree , still sad when others ' grief is fled , The only constant mourner o'er the dead ! The steed is vanished from the stall ; No serf is seen in Hassan's hall ; The lonely spider's thin gray pall Waves slowly widening o'er ...
... death- Dark tree , still sad when others ' grief is fled , The only constant mourner o'er the dead ! The steed is vanished from the stall ; No serf is seen in Hassan's hall ; The lonely spider's thin gray pall Waves slowly widening o'er ...
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... expire , Or live like scorpion girt by fire ; 17 So writhes the mind remorse hath riven , Unfit for earth , undoomed for heaven , Darkness above , despair beneath , Around it flame , within it death ! * Black 18 THE GIAOUR .
... expire , Or live like scorpion girt by fire ; 17 So writhes the mind remorse hath riven , Unfit for earth , undoomed for heaven , Darkness above , despair beneath , Around it flame , within it death ! * Black 18 THE GIAOUR .
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