Selections from Byron: Childe Harold, Canto IV, The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, and Other PoemsGinn, 1911 - 185 pages |
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... away from the foe , Stretch me that moment in blood at thy feet ! Mine be the doom which they dared not to meet . III Farewell to others , but never we part , SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE 7 SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE.
... away from the foe , Stretch me that moment in blood at thy feet ! Mine be the doom which they dared not to meet . III Farewell to others , but never we part , SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE 7 SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE.
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... Persecution's rage ; One in fire , and two in field , Their belief with blood have sealed , Dying as their father died , For the God their foes denied ; - IO 20 Three were in a dungeon cast , Of whom this THE PRISONER OF CHILLON 19.
... Persecution's rage ; One in fire , and two in field , Their belief with blood have sealed , Dying as their father died , For the God their foes denied ; - IO 20 Three were in a dungeon cast , Of whom this THE PRISONER OF CHILLON 19.
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... blood , I've seen it on the breaking ocean 180 Strive with a swoln convulsive motion , I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread : - But these were horrors this was woe Unmixed with such but sure and slow : He ...
... blood , I've seen it on the breaking ocean 180 Strive with a swoln convulsive motion , I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread : - But these were horrors this was woe Unmixed with such but sure and slow : He ...
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... blood she bore o'er subject earth and sea ; Though making many slaves , Herself still free , And Europe's bulwark ' gainst the Ottomite ; 3 Witness Troy's rival , Candia ! Vouch it , ye Immortal waves that saw Lepanto's fight ! For ye ...
... blood she bore o'er subject earth and sea ; Though making many slaves , Herself still free , And Europe's bulwark ' gainst the Ottomite ; 3 Witness Troy's rival , Candia ! Vouch it , ye Immortal waves that saw Lepanto's fight ! For ye ...
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... blood , the earth a tomb , The tomb a hell , — and hell itself a murkier gloom . XXXV Ferrara ! 1 in thy wide and grass - grown streets , Whose symmetry was not for solitude , 2 There seems as ' t were a curse upon the seats Of former ...
... blood , the earth a tomb , The tomb a hell , — and hell itself a murkier gloom . XXXV Ferrara ! 1 in thy wide and grass - grown streets , Whose symmetry was not for solitude , 2 There seems as ' t were a curse upon the seats Of former ...
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SELECTIONS FROM BYRON George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, 1788,Samuel Marion 1876 Tucker No preview available - 2016 |
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