Selections from Byron: Childe Harold, Canto IV, The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, and Other PoemsGinn, 1911 - 185 pages |
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... 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 parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom ...
... 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 parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom ...
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... shore to which their shivered sail shall never stretch again . III Then the mortal coldness of the soul like Death itself comes down ; It cannot feel for others ' woes , it dare not dream its own ; That heavy chill has frozen o'er the ...
... shore to which their shivered sail shall never stretch again . III Then the mortal coldness of the soul like Death itself comes down ; It cannot feel for others ' woes , it dare not dream its own ; That heavy chill has frozen o'er the ...
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... shore , MY And my bark is on the sea ; But , before I go , Tom Moore , Here's a double health to thee ! II Here's a sigh to those who love me , And a smile to those who hate ; And , whatever sky ' s above me , Here's a heart for every ...
... shore , MY And my bark is on the sea ; But , before I go , Tom Moore , Here's a double health to thee ! II Here's a sigh to those who love me , And a smile to those who hate ; And , whatever sky ' s above me , Here's a heart for every ...
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... shore , Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar , Or chirps the grasshopper one good - night carol more ; LXXXVII He is an evening reveller , who makes His life an infancy , and sings ...
... shore , Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar , Or chirps the grasshopper one good - night carol more ; LXXXVII He is an evening reveller , who makes His life an infancy , and sings ...
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... shore , And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here . States fall , arts fade- but Nature doth not die , Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear , The pleasant place of all festivity , The ...
... shore , And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here . States fall , arts fade- but Nature doth not die , Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear , The pleasant place of all festivity , The ...
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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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Adriatic Sea Alps Apennines Ariosto Athens beauty blood Boccaccio breast breath bright brow Bucentaur Byron Cæsar cantos of Childe CASTLE OF CHILLON chain Childe Harold Dante dark dead death deep dome Don Juan doth dread earth Emperor eternal eyes fame famous Farewell feel Florence gaze genius glory Greece Greek hath heart heaven Hetman hope hour immortal Italian Italy Julius Cæsar king lake light limbs Loch na Garr Lord Lord Byron lyrical marble Mazeppa mighty mind mother mountains Napoleon never night o'er ocean Petrarch poem poet poet's poetry Prisoner of Chillon Roman Rome ruin Samian wine satire scarce scene seemed Shelley shore sigh Soracte soul spirit stanzas star sweet Tasso tears temple thee thine things thou thought tomb tree Ukraine Vaucluse Venice voice waters waves wild wind woes youth