The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: The giaour. Bride of AbydosJohn Murray, 1817 |
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... light caique , He shuns the near but doubtful creek : Though worn and weary with his toil , And cumbered with his scaly spoil , Slowly , yet strongly , plies the oar , Till Port Leone's safer shore Receives him by the lovely light That ...
... light caique , He shuns the near but doubtful creek : Though worn and weary with his toil , And cumbered with his scaly spoil , Slowly , yet strongly , plies the oar , Till Port Leone's safer shore Receives him by the lovely light That ...
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... , and verdure o'er the ground . ' Twas sweet , when cloudless stars were bright , To view the wave of watery light , And hear its melody by night . 306 And oft had Hassan's Childhood played Around the verge of 20 THE GIAOUR .
... , and verdure o'er the ground . ' Twas sweet , when cloudless stars were bright , To view the wave of watery light , And hear its melody by night . 306 And oft had Hassan's Childhood played Around the verge of 20 THE GIAOUR .
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... 19 trembling light , The Giaour upon his jet black steed Was seen , but seen alone to speed With bloody spur along the shore , Nor maid nor page behind him bore . * 470 Her eye's dark charm ' twere vain to tell , THE GIAOUR . 31.
... 19 trembling light , The Giaour upon his jet black steed Was seen , but seen alone to speed With bloody spur along the shore , Nor maid nor page behind him bore . * 470 Her eye's dark charm ' twere vain to tell , THE GIAOUR . 31.
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... light ; Beneath , a river's wintry stream Has shrunk before the summer beam , And left a channel bleak and bare , Save shrubs that spring to perish there : 560 Each side the midway path there lay Small broken crags of granite gray , By ...
... light ; Beneath , a river's wintry stream Has shrunk before the summer beam , And left a channel bleak and bare , Save shrubs that spring to perish there : 560 Each side the midway path there lay Small broken crags of granite gray , By ...
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... light , and keeps his course , Till fiery flashes in the van Proclaim too sure the robber - clan 585 590 Have well secured the only way Could now avail the promised prey ; Then curled his very beard " with ire , And glared his eye with ...
... light , and keeps his course , Till fiery flashes in the van Proclaim too sure the robber - clan 585 590 Have well secured the only way Could now avail the promised prey ; Then curled his very beard " with ire , And glared his eye with ...
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Abdallah's Amaun arms Arnaut ataghan Azrael beam bear beauty beneath blest blood bloom bower brave bread and salt breast breath bride BRIDE OF ABYDOS brow Calpac Carasman cheek clime courser's dare dark death deed deem desart doom dread earth fate father fear feel fire flash flower foes gaze Giaffir Giaour glance grave Greek grief hand Haram Hassan hate hath hear heard heaven Helle's Hellespont hope hour Houris jerreed Koran land Leila line 12 line 9 lonely LORD BYRON maid Morea Moslem mourn Mussulman ne'er never night Note o'er Pacha pale Persian prayer rest rose round sabre scarce Selim shine shore sire slave smile soothe soul sound steed strife tale tear tell thee thine thought Timariot tomb tophaike trembling turban Turkish Twas twere waft wandering wave winds word wound young Zuleika
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Page 9 - Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom 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 from splendour to disgrace...
Page 108 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 7 - 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 last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away ! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished earth.
Page 9 - 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, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame : For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
Page 107 - 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 73 - I grieve ; but not, my holy guide ! For him who dies, but her who died . She sleeps beneath the wandering wave— Ah .' had she but an earthly grave, • » This breaking heart and throbbing head Should seek and share her narrow bed. She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Page 5 - He who 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...
Page 6 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some' moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed ! Such is the aspect of this shore ; Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!
Page 71 - The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name ; But mine was like the lava flood That boils in ^Etna's breast of flame...
Page 8 - That this is all remains of thee ? Approach, thou craven crouching slave: Say, is not this Thermopylae? These waters blue that round you lave, Oh servile offspring of the free — Pronounce what sea, what shore is this ! The gulf, the rock of Salamis...