The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes, Volume 7Suttaby, 1885 |
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... beneath its influence born- Thou worm ! whom I obey and scorn- Forced by a power ( which is not thine , And lent thee but to make thee mine ) For this brief moment to descend , Where these weak spirits round thee bend And parley with a ...
... beneath its influence born- Thou worm ! whom I obey and scorn- Forced by a power ( which is not thine , And lent thee but to make thee mine ) For this brief moment to descend , Where these weak spirits round thee bend And parley with a ...
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... 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 ever - wherefore do I pause ? I feel the ...
... 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 ever - wherefore do I pause ? I feel the ...
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... beneath , Crash with a frequent conflict ; but ye pass , And only fall on things that still would live ; On the young flourishing forest , or the hut And hamlet of the harmless villager . C. Hun . The mists begin to rise from up the ...
... beneath , Crash with a frequent conflict ; but ye pass , And only fall on things that still would live ; On the young flourishing forest , or the hut And hamlet of the harmless villager . C. Hun . The mists begin to rise from up the ...
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... beneath the arch of the sunbow of the torrent . Beautiful Spirit ! with thy hair of light , And dazzling eyes of glory , in whose form The charms of earth's least mortal daughters grow To an unearthly stature , in an essence Of purer ...
... beneath the arch of the sunbow of the torrent . Beautiful Spirit ! with thy hair of light , And dazzling eyes of glory , in whose form The charms of earth's least mortal daughters grow To an unearthly stature , in an essence Of purer ...
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... Beneath his footsteps the volcanoes rise ; His shadow is the Pestilence ; his path The comets herald through the crackling skies ; And planets turn to ashes at his wrath . To him War offers daily sacrifice : To him Death pays his ...
... Beneath his footsteps the volcanoes rise ; His shadow is the Pestilence ; his path The comets herald through the crackling skies ; And planets turn to ashes at his wrath . To him War offers daily sacrifice : To him Death pays his ...
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Page 17 - 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 ! Man.
Page 49 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 54 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 40 - 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 7 - Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment — born and dying With the blest tone which made me ! Enter -fr/om below a CHAMOIS HUNTER CHAMOIS HUKTER.
Page 4 - And a magic voice and verse Hath baptized thee with a curse ; And a spirit of the air Hath begirt thee with a snare ; In the wind there is a voice Shall forbid thee to rejoice ; And to thee shall Night deny All the quiet of her sky ; And the day shall have a sun, Which shall make thee wish it done.
Page 11 - tis blood — my blood ! the pure warm stream Which ran in the veins of my fathers, and in ours When we were in our youth, and had one heart, And loved each other as we should not love, And this was shed : but still it rises up, Colouring the clouds, that shut me out from heaven, Where thou art not — and I shall never be.
Page 8 - The mists boil up around the glaciers ; clouds Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury, Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, Whose every wave breaks on a living shore Heap'd with the damn'd like pebbles.
Page 33 - Nor charm in prayer, nor purifying form Of penitence, nor outward look, nor fast, Nor agony — nor, greater than all these, The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell, But all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven — can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit the quick sense Of its own sins, wrongs, sufferance, and revenge Upon itself ; there is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self-condemn'd He deals on his own soul.
Page 36 - 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!