 My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile. The hope,...  Selections from the Poetry of Lord Byron - Page 303by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1825 - 806 pages
...canker, and the grief, Arc mine alone ! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile...power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain. Bnt 'tis not thvs — and 'tis nol here — Such thoughts should sliuke my soul, nor nou't Where glory... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 588 pages
...canker, and the grief Are mine alono ! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze, — A funeral pile...love I cannot share, But wear the chain. But 'tis not thai, and 'tis not here Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now, Where glory decks the hero's bier,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 602 pages
...Ponto ' we have an attempt to misapply the elegiac muse, and to force her whose song should be of ' The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love,' to record the petty troubles of une ame desorientfa, and ill at ease amid its surroundings. We could... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - England - 1824 - 496 pages
...No torch is kindled at its blaze— A funeral pile. The hope, the fears, the jealous care, • Th' exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain. Bnt 'tis not here—it is not here— Such thoughts should shake my soul; nor nowWhere glory seals... | |
 | William Parry - British - 1825 - 404 pages
...disposal of his property in Greece. " The fire that on my bosom preys, Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze— A funeral pile!...Where glory decks the hero's bier, Or binds his brow. " The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece around me see! The Spartan, borne upon his... | |
 | Scotland - 1825 - 810 pages
...alone ! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torcli is kindled at Us blaze — A funeral pile ! The hope, the fear, the...Where glory decks the hero's bier, Or binds his brow. The eword, the banner, and the field, • Glory and Greece, around me see ! Tlie Spartan, borne upon... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...canker, and the grief, Are mine alone ! Tin- fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile...not here— Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor not:, Where glory decks the hero's hier, Or hinds his brow. The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory... | |
 | William Parry - Greece - 1825 - 404 pages
...disposal of his property in Greece. " The fire that on my bosom preys, Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile...not here Such thoughts should shake my soul ; nor nmv Where glory decks the hero's bier, Or binds his brow. " The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory... | |
 | conte Pietro Gamba - British - 1825 - 446 pages
...canker, and the grief Are mine alone ! 3. The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile...power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain. 5. But 'tis not thus — and 'tis not here — Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now, Where glory... | |
 | England - 1825 - 848 pages
...The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze Л funeral pile ! The hope, the fear, the jealous care,...love, I cannot share, But wear the chain. But 'tis not (¿taut — and 'tis not hetv— Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now, Where glory decks the... | |
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