The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 4-5A. and W. Galignani, 1826 - English literature |
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... never yet was vain , Gives but one pang , and cures all pain , And darts into her desperate brain : So do the dark in soul expire , Or live like scorpion girt by fire ; ' 7 So writhes the mind remorse hath riven , Unfit for earth ...
... never yet was vain , Gives but one pang , and cures all pain , And darts into her desperate brain : So do the dark in soul expire , Or live like scorpion girt by fire ; ' 7 So writhes the mind remorse hath riven , Unfit for earth ...
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... never mount again : Unseen the foes that gave the wound , The dying ask revenge in vain . With steel unsheath'd , and carbine bent , Some o'er their courser's harness leant , Half shelter'd by the steed ; Some fly behind the nearest ...
... never mount again : Unseen the foes that gave the wound , The dying ask revenge in vain . With steel unsheath'd , and carbine bent , Some o'er their courser's harness leant , Half shelter'd by the steed ; Some fly behind the nearest ...
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... never pant For all that beauty sighs to grant With half the fervour hate bestows Upon the last embrace of foes , When grappling in the fight they fold Those arms that ne'er shall loose their hold : Friends meet to part ; love laughs at ...
... never pant For all that beauty sighs to grant With half the fervour hate bestows Upon the last embrace of foes , When grappling in the fight they fold Those arms that ne'er shall loose their hold : Friends meet to part ; love laughs at ...
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... never at our vesper prayer , Nor e'er before confession chair Kneels he , nor recks he when arise Incense or anthem to the skies , But broods within his cell alone , His faith and race alike unknown . The sea from Paynim land he crost ...
... never at our vesper prayer , Nor e'er before confession chair Kneels he , nor recks he when arise Incense or anthem to the skies , But broods within his cell alone , His faith and race alike unknown . The sea from Paynim land he crost ...
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... never heard Of his one holy vow nor word .. Lo ! -mark ye , as the harmony Peals louder praises to the sky , That livid cheek , that stony air Of mix'd defiance and despair ! Saint Francis , keep him from the shrine ! Else may we dread ...
... never heard Of his one holy vow nor word .. Lo ! -mark ye , as the harmony Peals louder praises to the sky , That livid cheek , that stony air Of mix'd defiance and despair ! Saint Francis , keep him from the shrine ! Else may we dread ...
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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.