The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2Knight and Lacey, 1823 |
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... our joys and our woes— a To which Life nothing darker nor brighter can bring , For which joy hath no balm — and affliction no sting . MOORE . » 11 . THE HE tale which these disjointed fragments present , is THE GIAOUR, ...
... our joys and our woes— a To which Life nothing darker nor brighter can bring , For which joy hath no balm — and affliction no sting . MOORE . » 11 . THE HE tale which these disjointed fragments present , is THE GIAOUR, ...
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... hath mixed Within the paradise she fixed , There man , enamoured of distress , Should mar it into wilderness , And trample , brute - like , o'er each flower That tasks not one laborious hour ; Nor claims the culture of his hand To bloom ...
... hath mixed Within the paradise she fixed , There man , enamoured of distress , Should mar it into wilderness , And trample , brute - like , o'er each flower That tasks not one laborious hour ; Nor claims the culture of his hand To bloom ...
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... hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of 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 ...
... hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of 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 ...
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... Hath swept the column from their tomb , A mightier monument command , The mountains of their native land ! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die ! ' Twere long to tell , and sad to trace , Each step ...
... Hath swept the column from their tomb , A mightier monument command , The mountains of their native land ! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die ! ' Twere long to tell , and sad to trace , Each step ...
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... his blade ; That sound had burst his waking dream , As slumber starts at owlet's scream . The spur hath lanced his courser's sides ; Away , away , for life he rides : Swift as the hurled on high jerreed 9 Springs to 12 THE GIAOUR .
... his blade ; That sound had burst his waking dream , As slumber starts at owlet's scream . The spur hath lanced his courser's sides ; Away , away , for life he rides : Swift as the hurled on high jerreed 9 Springs to 12 THE GIAOUR .
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