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Ah ! such , alas ! the hero ' s amplest fate ! When granite moulders and when
records fail , A peasant ' s plaint prolongs his dubious date . Pride ! bend thine
eye from heaven to thine estate , See how the Mighty shrink into a song ! Can
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Ah ! such , alas ! the hero ' s amplest fate ! When granite moulders and when
records fail , A peasant ' s plaint prolongs his dubious date . Pride ! bend thine
eye from heaven to thine estate , See how the Mighty shrink into a song ! Can
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Gainst fate to strive Where Desolation plants her faniished brood Is vain , or llion ,
Tyre might yet survive , And Virtue vanquish all , and Murder cease to thrive .
XLVI . But all unconscious of the coming doom , CHILDE HAROLD ' S Canto I .
Gainst fate to strive Where Desolation plants her faniished brood Is vain , or llion ,
Tyre might yet survive , And Virtue vanquish all , and Murder cease to thrive .
XLVI . But all unconscious of the coming doom , CHILDE HAROLD ' S Canto I .
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Happier in this than mightiest bards have been , Whose fate to distant homes
confined their lot , Shall I unmoved behold the hallowed scene , Which others
rave of , though they know it not ? Though here no more Apollo haunts his grot ,
And ...
Happier in this than mightiest bards have been , Whose fate to distant homes
confined their lot , Shall I unmoved behold the hallowed scene , Which others
rave of , though they know it not ? Though here no more Apollo haunts his grot ,
And ...
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Still he beheld , nor mingled with the throng ' ; But viewed them not with
misanthropic hate : Fain would he now have joined the dance , the song ; But
who may smile that sinks beneath his fate ? Nought that he saw his sadness
could abate ...
Still he beheld , nor mingled with the throng ' ; But viewed them not with
misanthropic hate : Fain would he now have joined the dance , the song ; But
who may smile that sinks beneath his fate ? Nought that he saw his sadness
could abate ...
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Such be the sons of Spain , and strange her fate ! They fight for freedom who
were never free ; A Kingless people for a nerveless state , Her vassals combat
when their chicftains flee , True to the veriest slaves of Treachery : . Fond of a
land ...
Such be the sons of Spain , and strange her fate ! They fight for freedom who
were never free ; A Kingless people for a nerveless state , Her vassals combat
when their chicftains flee , True to the veriest slaves of Treachery : . Fond of a
land ...
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Page 15 - Oh, Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land ! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree ! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand...
Page 80 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine? 'Tis the clime of the East; 'tis the land of the Sun— Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done ? Oh! wild as the accents of lovers...
Page 17 - The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep, The tender azure of the unruffled deep, The orange tints that gild the greenest bough, The torrents that from cliff to valley leap, The vine on high, the willow branch below, Mix'd in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
Page 106 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 27 - Hark ! — heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note ? Sounds not the clang of conflict on the heath? Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote ; Nor saved your brethren ere they sank beneath Tyrants and tyrants' slaves? — the fires of death, The bale-fires flash on high : — from rock to rock Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe ; Death rides upon the sulphury siroc, Red battle stamps his foot, and nations feel the shock.
Page 71 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;. This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.
Page 83 - Zitza!" from thy shady brow, Thou small, but favour'd spot of holy ground ! Where'er we gaze, around, above, below, What rainbow tints, what magic charms are found! Rock, river, forest, mountain all abound, And bluest skies that harmonize the whole : Beneath, the distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll Between those hanging rocks, that shock yet please the soul.
Page 118 - Or, since that hope denied in worlds of strife, Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray.
Page 101 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? No ! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, But not for you will freedom's altars flame.
Page 99 - Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! Who now shall lead thy scattered children forth, And long accustomed bondage uncreate?
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| Title | The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 1-2 Volumes 1-6; Volumes 9-11; Volume 21; Volumes 26-27 of Pocket libr. of Engl. classics The works of ... lord Byron, George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) |
| Author | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) |
| Published | 1818 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
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