The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 4-5A. and W. Galignani, 1826 - English literature |
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... Giaffir sate in his Divan : Deep thought was in his aged eye ; And though the face of Mussulman , Not oft betrays to standers by The mind within , well skill'd to hide All but unconquerable pride , His pensive cheek and pondering brow ...
... Giaffir sate in his Divan : Deep thought was in his aged eye ; And though the face of Mussulman , Not oft betrays to standers by The mind within , well skill'd to hide All but unconquerable pride , His pensive cheek and pondering brow ...
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... Giaffir's ear , But every frown and every word Pierced keener than a Christian's sword . << Son of a slave ! -reproach'd with fear ! Those gibes had cost another dear . Son of a slave ! -- and who my sire ? » > Thus held his thoughts ...
... Giaffir's ear , But every frown and every word Pierced keener than a Christian's sword . << Son of a slave ! -reproach'd with fear ! Those gibes had cost another dear . Son of a slave ! -- and who my sire ? » > Thus held his thoughts ...
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... , Zuleika came - and Giaffir felt His purpose half within him melt : Not that against her fancied weal His heart though stern could ever feel ; Affection chain'd her to that heart ; Ambition tore the TO 1. ] 10 THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS . 77.
... , Zuleika came - and Giaffir felt His purpose half within him melt : Not that against her fancied weal His heart though stern could ever feel ; Affection chain'd her to that heart ; Ambition tore the TO 1. ] 10 THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS . 77.
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... Giaffir's daughter ! X. No word from Selim's bosom broke ; One sigh Zuleika's thought bespoke : Still gazed he through the lattice grate , Pale , mute , and mournfully sedate . To him Zuleika's eye was turn'd , But little from his ...
... Giaffir's daughter ! X. No word from Selim's bosom broke ; One sigh Zuleika's thought bespoke : Still gazed he through the lattice grate , Pale , mute , and mournfully sedate . To him Zuleika's eye was turn'd , But little from his ...
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... Within the caves of Istakar.'9 This morning clouds upon me lower'd , Reproaches on my head were shower'd , And Giaffir almost called me coward ! Now I have motive to be brave ; The son TO 1. ] THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS . 333 83.
... Within the caves of Istakar.'9 This morning clouds upon me lower'd , Reproaches on my head were shower'd , And Giaffir almost called me coward ! Now I have motive to be brave ; The son TO 1. ] THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS . 333 83.
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Page 157 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 172 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Page 169 - For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone, — Lone — as the corse within its shroud, Lone — as a solitary cloud, A single cloud on a sunny day, While all the rest of heaven is clear, A frown upon the atmosphere, That hath no business to appear When skies are blue, and earth is gay.
Page 9 - 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 166 - I found him not. 7 only stirred in this black spot; / only lived — / only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew; The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 166 - And not a word of murmur — not A groan o'er his untimely lot ! A little talk of better days, A little hope my own...
Page 9 - 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 172 - These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage — and all my own! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home...
Page 170 - Who loved me in a human shape; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me : No child — no sire — no kin had I, No partner in my misery; I...
Page 163 - And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when winds were high And wanton in the happy sky; And then the very rock hath rock'd, And I have felt it shake unshock'd, Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free.