Manfred,: A Dramatic Poem, Volume 2John Murray, Albemarle-Street., 1817 - 73 pages |
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... , and on the torrent's brink beneath Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs In dizziness of distance ; when a leap , A stir , a motion , even a breath , would bring My breast upon its rocky bosom's bed To rest for 20 ACT I. MANFRED .
... , and on the torrent's brink beneath Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs In dizziness of distance ; when a leap , A stir , a motion , even a breath , would bring My breast upon its rocky bosom's bed To rest for 20 ACT I. MANFRED .
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... rest for ever - wherefore do I pause ? I feel the impulse - yet I do not plunge ; I see the peril ― yet do not recede ; And my brain reels - and yet my foot is firm : There is a power upon me which withholds And makes it my fatality to ...
... rest for ever - wherefore do I pause ? I feel the impulse - yet I do not plunge ; I see the peril ― yet do not recede ; And my brain reels - and yet my foot is firm : There is a power upon me which withholds And makes it my fatality to ...
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... rests , save carcases and wrecks , Rocks , and the salt - surf weeds of bitterness . C. HUN . Alas ! he's mad - but yet I must not leave him . MAN . I would I were - for then the things I see Would be but a distempered dream . C. HUN ...
... rests , save carcases and wrecks , Rocks , and the salt - surf weeds of bitterness . C. HUN . Alas ! he's mad - but yet I must not leave him . MAN . I would I were - for then the things I see Would be but a distempered dream . C. HUN ...
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... rest ! And penitence restore thee to thyself ; My prayers shall be for thee . MAN . I need them not , But can endure thy pity . I depart— ' Tis time - farewell ! —Here's gold , and thanks for thee- No words - it is thy due . - Follow me ...
... rest ! And penitence restore thee to thyself ; My prayers shall be for thee . MAN . I need them not , But can endure thy pity . I depart— ' Tis time - farewell ! —Here's gold , and thanks for thee- No words - it is thy due . - Follow me ...
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... rests with thee alone - command her voice . ARI . Spirit - obey this sceptre ! NEM . She is not of our order , but belongs Silent still ! To the other powers . Mortal ! thy quest is vain , And we are baffled also . MAN . Hear me , hear ...
... rests with thee alone - command her voice . ARI . Spirit - obey this sceptre ! NEM . She is not of our order , but belongs Silent still ! To the other powers . Mortal ! thy quest is vain , And we are baffled also . MAN . Hear me , hear ...
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answer ASTARTE Author beautiful beneath bidding Boards breath Castle of Manfred CHAMOIS HUNTER clay clouds death DESTINIES doth dread dwell earth Eleuthera Engravings Enter the ABBOT Exit MANFRED eyes fatal France French Glory to Arimanes Hast thou hath heart heaven hell HERMAN hour HURST illustrated JOHN large Paper late live London Longman look LORD LORD BYRON MANUEL Memoirs Mix'd mortal mountain Mysore NEMESIS night o'er ocean Octavo ORME PACIFIC OCEAN Pausanias pause PHAN Plates POEM Poet Laureate Portraits Price 21 printed Quarto REES rise ROBERT SOUTHEY ROBERT WALPOLE Royal Royal Navy SCENE Second Edition slumber Small 8vo soul speak SPIRIT star sunbow's things thou art thou dost thou wilt thoughts thy wish thyself torrent torture Translated TRAVELS UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH URINARY ORGANS voice vols Volume wandering wave WILLIAM WILLIAM COXE WITCH wouldst thou wreck ΜΑΝ Аввот
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Page 68 - 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 10 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 33 - tis but the same; My pang shall find a voice. From my youth upwards My spirit walk'd not with the souls of men, Nor look'd upon the earth with human eyes ; The thirst of their ambition was not mine, The aim of their existence was not mine ; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger ; though I wore the form, I had no sympathy with breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of clay that girded me Was there but one who but of her anon.
Page 31 - 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 69 - But the gladiators' bloody Circus stands, A noble wreck in ruinous perfection ! While Caesar's chambers, and the Augustan halls, Grovel on earth in indistinct decay.
Page 61 - Look on me! there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age...
Page 19 - ... tears I did distil An essence which hath strength to kill ; From thy own heart I then did wring The black blood in its blackest spring ; From thy own smile I...
Page 36 - 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 hod 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 51 - 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. Thou lovedst me Too much, as I loved thee : we were not made To torture thus each other, though it were The deadliest sin to love as we have loved.
Page 8 - Philosophy and science, and the springs Of wonder, and the wisdom of the world, I have essay'd, and in my mind there is A power to make these subject to itself — But they avail not...