The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,John Murray, 1833 |
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... Mortal ! to thy bidding bow'd , From my mansion in the cloud , Which the breath of twilight builds , And the summer's sunset gilds With the azure and vermilion , Which is mix'd for my pavilion ; ( 1 ) Though thy quest may be forbidden ...
... Mortal ! to thy bidding bow'd , From my mansion in the cloud , Which the breath of twilight builds , And the summer's sunset gilds With the azure and vermilion , Which is mix'd for my pavilion ; ( 1 ) Though thy quest may be forbidden ...
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... mortal daughters grow To an unearthly stature , in an essence - Of purer elements ; while the hues of youth , - Carnation'd like a sleeping infant's cheek , Rock'd by the beating of her mother's heart , Or the rose tints , which ...
... mortal daughters grow To an unearthly stature , in an essence - Of purer elements ; while the hues of youth , - Carnation'd like a sleeping infant's cheek , Rock'd by the beating of her mother's heart , Or the rose tints , which ...
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... mortal here - I dwell in my despair- And live - and live for ever . Witch . That I can aid thee . Man . It may be To do this thy power Must wake the dead , or lay me low with them . Do so - in any shape - in any hour- With any torture ...
... mortal here - I dwell in my despair- And live - and live for ever . Witch . That I can aid thee . Man . It may be To do this thy power Must wake the dead , or lay me low with them . Do so - in any shape - in any hour- With any torture ...
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... mortal trod , we nightly tread , And leave no traces ; o'er the savage sea , The glassy ocean of the mountain ice , We skim its rugged breakers , which put on The aspect of a tumbling tempest's foam , Frozen in a moment ( 1 ) —a dead ...
... mortal trod , we nightly tread , And leave no traces ; o'er the savage sea , The glassy ocean of the mountain ice , We skim its rugged breakers , which put on The aspect of a tumbling tempest's foam , Frozen in a moment ( 1 ) —a dead ...
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... mortal ! -Thou most rash and fatal wretch , Bow down and worship ! Second Spirit . I do know the man- A Magian of great power , and fearful skill ! Third Spirit . Bow down and worship , slave ! — What , know'st thou not Thine and our ...
... mortal ! -Thou most rash and fatal wretch , Bow down and worship ! Second Spirit . I do know the man- A Magian of great power , and fearful skill ! Third Spirit . Bow down and worship , slave ! — What , know'st thou not Thine and our ...
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Page 35 - She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe : nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I had not ; And tenderness — but that I had for her ; Humility — and that I never had. Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own — I loved her, and destroy'd her ! Witch.
Page 29 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 66 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...
Page 21 - Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence, make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Page 123 - I like the taxes, when they're not too many; I like a seacoal fire, when not too dear; I like a beef-steak, too, as well as any; Have no objection to a pot of beer; I like the weather, when it is not rainy, That is, I like two months of every year.
Page 59 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos— Light and Darkness— And mind and dust— and passions and pure thoughts Mixed, and contending without end or order,— All dormant or destructive.
Page 47 - Hear me, hear me — Astarte ! my beloved ! speak to me : I have so much endured — so much endure — Look on me ! the grave hath not changed thee more Than I am changed for thee.
Page 12 - The Glacier's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass, Or with its ice delay.
Page 172 - With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils, never stretched by pain. Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscarred by spur or rod, A thousand horse, the wild, the free, Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on, As if our faint approach to meet ; The sight renerved my courser's feet.
Page 60 - Most glorious orb! that wert a worship, ere The mystery of thy making was reveal'd! 10 Thou earliest minister of the Almighty, Which gladden'd, on their mountain tops, the hearts Of the Chaldean shepherds, till they pour'd Themselves in orisons! Thou material God! And representative of the Unknown — Who chose thee for his shadow!