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" So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made... "
Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life - Page 255
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 512 pages
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Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1995 - 412 pages
...heart be still as loving. And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, T And the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause...was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, 10 Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon. 7577 1817 STANZAS When a man hath no freedom...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...heart be still as loving. And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath. And the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause...Though the night was made for loving. And the day retums too soon, 10 Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB...
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The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style

Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 238 pages
...secular sense, 'the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak': For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. (Byron, 'So We'll Go No More A-roving', 4-8) In this famous passage the word 'soul' stands closer to...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. II For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. tn Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a roving...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe And love itself have rest. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, ÓTH BARON BYRON, (1788-1824) British poet. "So We'll Go No More A-Roving"...
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The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon. Byron also likes to play with his readers by following...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause...made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon. COMPOSED 1817; PUBLISHED 1830. Byron was not yet...
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Barrymore: A Play

William Luce - Drama - 1998 - 60 pages
...heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And Love itself have rest. When wife number four divorced me, she said, "Jack, I'm sorry, but you don't have the qualities I want...
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Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature ...

Tilottama Rajan, Julia M. Wright - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 316 pages
...secular sense, "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak": For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. (Byron, "So We'll Go No More A-roving," 5-8) In this famous passage the word "soul" stands closer to...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. 1994 'So, we'll go no morea-roving' we'll go no more a roving By the light of the moon. 1995 'Stanzas for Music' There's not a joy the...
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