The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Including His Suppressed Poems, and Others Never Before Published ...Baudry, 1832 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page 44
... poetical commandments , which Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before ; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows , And carry precept to the highest pitch : I'll call the work " Longinus o'er ...
... poetical commandments , which Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before ; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows , And carry precept to the highest pitch : I'll call the work " Longinus o'er ...
Page 266
... poetical : men should know why They write , and for what end ; but , note or text , I never know the word which will come next . XLII . So on I ramble , now and then narrating , Now pondering . It is time we should narrate : I left Don ...
... poetical : men should know why They write , and for what end ; but , note or text , I never know the word which will come next . XLII . So on I ramble , now and then narrating , Now pondering . It is time we should narrate : I left Don ...
Page 367
... the sun and stars , and aught that shines , Mountains , and all we can be most sublime at , Are there oft dull and dreary as a dùn— Whether a sky's or tradesman's is all one . XXX . And in - door life is less poetical DON JUAN . 367.
... the sun and stars , and aught that shines , Mountains , and all we can be most sublime at , Are there oft dull and dreary as a dùn— Whether a sky's or tradesman's is all one . XXX . And in - door life is less poetical DON JUAN . 367.
Page 368
... poetical ; And out of door hath showers , and mists , and sleet , With which I could not brew a pastoral . But be it as it may , a bard must meet All difficulties , whether great or small , To spoil his undertaking or complete , And ...
... poetical ; And out of door hath showers , and mists , and sleet , With which I could not brew a pastoral . But be it as it may , a bard must meet All difficulties , whether great or small , To spoil his undertaking or complete , And ...
Page 489
... poetically , once a month for these last ten years , and never cared very much about correcting one or the other , at ... poetical than my own in the second . printing the work , as I put my name to it , I omitted Mr. Hobhouse's lines ...
... poetically , once a month for these last ten years , and never cared very much about correcting one or the other , at ... poetical than my own in the second . printing the work , as I put my name to it , I omitted Mr. Hobhouse's lines ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adeline Baba beautiful better blood Bowles call'd CANTO Catholic CIII Cossacks Darvell death devil Don Juan doubt e'er earth eyes face fair fame feelings gazed glory grace Greece grew Gulbeyaz Haidee hath head heart heaven hero houris human human clay Juan's Julia king knew lady late least leave less look look'd Lord LORD BYRON LXXII LXXXVI marriage mind moral Muse ne'er never night Note nought o'er once pass'd passion perhaps poet poetical poetry Pope pretty renegado rhyme Saint Saint Peter Samian wine scarce seem'd seen shore show'd sigh slight smile soul Spain spirit Stanza stood strange sublime Suwarrow sweet tears tell There's things thou thought true truth turn'd unto Voltaire Wat Tyler waves whate'er wind wish words XXXIII young youth
Popular passages
Page 110 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 111 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 111 - Must we but blush?— Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one, arise,— we come, we come!
Page 349 - Within a niche, nigh to its pinnacle, Twelve saints had once stood sanctified in stone; But these had fallen, not when the friars fell, But in the war which struck Charles from his throne...
Page 93 - Oh, Love ! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast — but place to die : Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.
Page 293 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping ' ' In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe, through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London town ! LXXXIII.
Page 503 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust, disused, and shine no more, My Mary!
Page 113 - Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his!
Page 67 - Brighten'd, and for a moment seem'd to roam, He squeezed from out a rag some drops of rain Into his dying child's mouth- but in vain. The boy expired- the father held the clay, And...
Page 86 - A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love, And beauty, all concentrating like rays Into one focus, kindled from above; Such kisses as belong to early days, Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move...