The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2Carey, 1843 |
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... bear The aspect and the form of breathing men . But grief should be the instructor of the wise ; Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth , The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life ...
... bear The aspect and the form of breathing men . But grief should be the instructor of the wise ; Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth , The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life ...
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... bear it ? - Look on me — I live . C. Hun . This is convulsion , and no healthful life . Man . I tell thee , man ! I have lived many years , Many long years , but they are nothing now To those which I must number : ages Space and ...
... bear it ? - Look on me — I live . C. Hun . This is convulsion , and no healthful life . Man . I tell thee , man ! I have lived many years , Many long years , but they are nothing now To those which I must number : ages Space and ...
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... bear However wretchedly , ' t is still to bear In life what others could not brook to dream , But perish in their slumber . C. Hun . And with this This cautious feeling for another's pain , Canst thou be black with evil ? — say not so ...
... bear However wretchedly , ' t is still to bear In life what others could not brook to dream , But perish in their slumber . C. Hun . And with this This cautious feeling for another's pain , Canst thou be black with evil ? — say not so ...
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... Bear what thou borest , The heart and the form , And the aspect thou worest Redeem from the worm . Appear ! Appear ! - Appear ! - Who sent thee there requires thee here ! [ The Phantom of ASTARTE rises and stands in the midst . Man ...
... Bear what thou borest , The heart and the form , And the aspect thou worest Redeem from the worm . Appear ! Appear ! - Appear ! - Who sent thee there requires thee here ! [ The Phantom of ASTARTE rises and stands in the midst . Man ...
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... bear This punishment for both that thou wilt be One of the blessed and that I shall die ; For hitherto all hateful things conspire To bind me in existence in a life Which makes me shrink from immortality - A future like the past . I ...
... bear This punishment for both that thou wilt be One of the blessed and that I shall die ; For hitherto all hateful things conspire To bind me in existence in a life Which makes me shrink from immortality - A future like the past . I ...
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Page 127 - They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear; A shudder comes o'er me — Why wert thou so dear? They know not I knew thee Who knew thee too well : Long, long shall I rue thee Too deeply to tell.
Page 136 - And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters...
Page 130 - Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee Where thy head so oft hath lain, While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again : Would that breast, by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show! Then thou wouldst at last discover 'Twas not well to spurn it so. Though the world for this commend thee — Though it smile upon the blow, Even its...
Page 136 - And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea ; and the third part of the sea became blood : 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died ; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Page 145 - A fearful hope was all the world contained ; Forests were set on fire — but hour by hour They fell and faded — and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash — and all was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them...
Page 106 - Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. The better days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine: The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have pass'd away,...
Page 129 - THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee ; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me...
Page 152 - TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain...
Page 55 - In that same hour and hall, the fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall, and wrote as if on sand : The fingers of a man ; — a solitary hand Along the letters ran, and traced them like a wand.
Page 56 - Chaldea's seers are good, But here they have no skill ; And the unknown letters stood Untold and awful still. And Babel's men of age Are wise and deep in lore ; But now they were not sage, They saw — but knew no more.