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... past , " Nor know I why this next appears the last ! " Yet so my heart forebodes , but must not fear , " Nor shall my followers find me falter here . " " Tis rash to meet , but surer death to wait " Till here they hunt us to undoubted ...
... past , " Nor know I why this next appears the last ! " Yet so my heart forebodes , but must not fear , " Nor shall my followers find me falter here . " " Tis rash to meet , but surer death to wait " Till here they hunt us to undoubted ...
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... past ! " Another came - Oh God ! ' twas thine at last ! " Would that those days were over ! wilt thou ne'er , " My Conrad ! learn the joys of peace to share ? " Sure thou hast more than wealth , and many a home " As bright as this ...
... past ! " Another came - Oh God ! ' twas thine at last ! " Would that those days were over ! wilt thou ne'er , " My Conrad ! learn the joys of peace to share ? " Sure thou hast more than wealth , and many a home " As bright as this ...
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... past “ Assures the future that my love will last ; " But - Oh , Medora ! nerve thy gentler heart , " This hour again - but not for long - we part . " " This hour we part ! —my heart foreboded this : " Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of ...
... past “ Assures the future that my love will last ; " But - Oh , Medora ! nerve thy gentler heart , " This hour again - but not for long - we part . " " This hour we part ! —my heart foreboded this : " Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of ...
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... Conrad gone ? XV . " And is he gone ? " - on sudden solitude How oft that fearful question will intrude ! " " Twas but an instant past — and here he stood ! " And now " -without the portal's porch she rush'd 28 CANTO I. THE CORSAIR .
... Conrad gone ? XV . " And is he gone ? " - on sudden solitude How oft that fearful question will intrude ! " " Twas but an instant past — and here he stood ! " And now " -without the portal's porch she rush'd 28 CANTO I. THE CORSAIR .
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... past Along his cheek , and tranquillized as fast : He sate him down in silence , and his look Resumed the calmness which before forsook : The feast was usher'd in -- but sumptuous fare He shunn'd as if some poison mingled there . For ...
... past Along his cheek , and tranquillized as fast : He sate him down in silence , and his look Resumed the calmness which before forsook : The feast was usher'd in -- but sumptuous fare He shunn'd as if some poison mingled there . For ...
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Page 7 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 282 - 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 273 - As to young eagles, being free) — A polar day, which will not see A sunset till its summer's gone, Its sleepless summer of long light, The snow-clad offspring of the sun: And thus he was as pure and bright, And in his natural spirit gay, With tears for nought but others...
Page 271 - And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp: And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away, Till I have done with this new day...
Page 269 - MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears :+ My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare...
Page 278 - 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 284 - I saw them — and they were the same, They were not changed like me in frame; I saw their thousand years of snow On high — their wide long lake below, And the blue Rhone in fullest flow...
Page 8 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way...
Page 284 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing Of gentle breath and hue.
Page 280 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard...