Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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... wall Stands when its wind - worn battlements are gone ; The bars survive the captive they enthral ; The day drags through though storms keep out the sun ; And thus the heart will break , yet brokenly live on . " 1 Or in these lines ...
... wall Stands when its wind - worn battlements are gone ; The bars survive the captive they enthral ; The day drags through though storms keep out the sun ; And thus the heart will break , yet brokenly live on . " 1 Or in these lines ...
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... wall , My dog howls at the gate . And now I'm in the world alone , Upon the wide , wide sea ; But why should I for others groan , When none will sigh for me ? Perchance my dog will whine in vain , Till fed CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE 7.
... wall , My dog howls at the gate . And now I'm in the world alone , Upon the wide , wide sea ; But why should I for others groan , When none will sigh for me ? Perchance my dog will whine in vain , Till fed CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE 7.
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... wall ? — Ne barrier wall , ne river deep and wide , Ne horrid crags , nor mountains dark and tall , Rise like the rocks that part Hispania's land from Gaul . XXXIII . But these between a silver streamlet glides , And scarce a name ...
... wall ? — Ne barrier wall , ne river deep and wide , Ne horrid crags , nor mountains dark and tall , Rise like the rocks that part Hispania's land from Gaul . XXXIII . But these between a silver streamlet glides , And scarce a name ...
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... eyed Lewdness walks her midnight rounds : Girt with the silent crimes of Capitals , Still to the last kind Vice clings to the tottering walls . XLVII . Not so the rustic with his trembling mate 16 SELECTIONS FROM BYRON.
... eyed Lewdness walks her midnight rounds : Girt with the silent crimes of Capitals , Still to the last kind Vice clings to the tottering walls . XLVII . Not so the rustic with his trembling mate 16 SELECTIONS FROM BYRON.
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... wall ? * * LX . Oh , thou Parnassus ! whom I now survey , Not in the frenzy of a dreamer's eye , Not in the fabled landscape of a lay , But soaring snow - clad through thy native sky , In the wild pomp of mountain majesty ! What marvel ...
... wall ? * * LX . Oh , thou Parnassus ! whom I now survey , Not in the frenzy of a dreamer's eye , Not in the fabled landscape of a lay , But soaring snow - clad through thy native sky , In the wild pomp of mountain majesty ! What marvel ...
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