The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2J. Murray, 1823 - English poetry |
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... from society we learn to live , " Tis solitude should teach us how to die ; It hath no flatterers ; vanity can give No hollow aid ; alone - man with his God must strive : XXXIV . Or , it may be , with demons CANTO IV . 27 PILGRIMAGE .
... from society we learn to live , " Tis solitude should teach us how to die ; It hath no flatterers ; vanity can give No hollow aid ; alone - man with his God must strive : XXXIV . Or , it may be , with demons CANTO IV . 27 PILGRIMAGE .
Page 86
... live , old man ! Heaven's realm holds no such tide . CLI . The starry fable of the milky way Has not thy story's purity ; it is A constellation of a sweeter ray , And sacred Nature triumphs more in this Reverse of her decree , than in ...
... live , old man ! Heaven's realm holds no such tide . CLI . The starry fable of the milky way Has not thy story's purity ; it is A constellation of a sweeter ray , And sacred Nature triumphs more in this Reverse of her decree , than in ...
Page 93
... live and suffer - let that pass— His shadow fades away into Destruction's mass , CLXV . Which gathers shadow , substance , life , and all That we inherit in its mortal shroud , And spreads the dim and universal pall Through which all ...
... live and suffer - let that pass— His shadow fades away into Destruction's mass , CLXV . Which gathers shadow , substance , life , and all That we inherit in its mortal shroud , And spreads the dim and universal pall Through which all ...
Page 120
... live St. George , " determined to annihilate their rival , and Peter Doria , their commander 1 “ Fiet potentium in aquis Adriaticis congregatio , caco praduce , Hircum ambigent , Byzantium prophanabunt , adificia denigrabunt ; spolia ...
... live St. George , " determined to annihilate their rival , and Peter Doria , their commander 1 “ Fiet potentium in aquis Adriaticis congregatio , caco praduce , Hircum ambigent , Byzantium prophanabunt , adificia denigrabunt ; spolia ...
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... live in them . The reflection , " who and what enthrals , " will hardly bear a comment from one who is , nationally , the friend and the ally of the conqueror . It may , however , be allowed to say thus much , that to those who wish to ...
... live in them . The reflection , " who and what enthrals , " will hardly bear a comment from one who is , nationally , the friend and the ally of the conqueror . It may , however , be allowed to say thus much , that to those who wish to ...
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Page 271 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 81 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd 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 hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 96 - 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 Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll!
Page 96 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own.
Page 198 - These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own ; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear...
Page 60 - There is a stern round tower of other days,' Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave.
Page 83 - When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then in this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 196 - The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now, And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy...
Page 225 - But first, on earth as Vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be 'rent : Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race : There, from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life ; Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse : Thy victims, ere they yet expire, Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.
Page 197 - Hers is the loveliness in death. That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb — Expression's...