The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2John Murray, 1828 |
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... 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 mark'd 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 mark'd the mild angelic air , The rapture of repose that's there ...
Page 8
... death reveal'd ! ( 5 ) Such is the aspect of this shore ; ' Tis Greece , but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet , so deadly fair , We start , for soul is wanting there . Hers is the loveliness in death , That parts not quite with ...
... death reveal'd ! ( 5 ) Such is the aspect of this shore ; ' Tis Greece , but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet , so deadly fair , We start , for soul is wanting there . Hers is the loveliness in death , That parts not quite with ...
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... death pursued ; But in that instant o'er his soul Winters of Memory seem'd to roll , And gather in that drop of time A life of pain , an age of crime . VOL . II . O'er him who loves , or hates , or fears THE GIAOUR . 13.
... death pursued ; But in that instant o'er his soul Winters of Memory seem'd to roll , And gather in that drop of time A life of pain , an age of crime . VOL . II . O'er him who loves , or hates , or fears THE GIAOUR . 13.
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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 vanish'd 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 vanish'd 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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... for heaven , Darkness above , despair beneath , Around it flame , within it death ! Black Hassan from the Haram flies , Nor bends on woman's form his eyes ; The unwonted chase each hour employs , Yet shares he THE GIAOUR . 19.
... for heaven , Darkness above , despair beneath , Around it flame , within it death ! Black Hassan from the Haram flies , Nor bends on woman's form his eyes ; The unwonted chase each hour employs , Yet shares he THE GIAOUR . 19.
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