Childe Harold's pilgrimageF. A. Niccolls, 1900 |
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... temple was , And is , despite of war and wasting fire , 47 And years , that bade thy worship to expire : But worse than steel , and flame , and ages slow , Is the dread sceptre and dominion dire Of men who never felt the sacred glow ...
... temple was , And is , despite of war and wasting fire , 47 And years , that bade thy worship to expire : But worse than steel , and flame , and ages slow , Is the dread sceptre and dominion dire Of men who never felt the sacred glow ...
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... temple where a God may dwell ? Why ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! VI . Look on its broken arch , its ruined wall , Its chambers desolate , and portals foul : Yes , this was once Ambition's airy hall , The dome of ...
... temple where a God may dwell ? Why ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell ! VI . Look on its broken arch , its ruined wall , Its chambers desolate , and portals foul : Yes , this was once Ambition's airy hall , The dome of ...
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... temples to thy surface bow , Commingling slowly with heroic earth , Broke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth , So perish all in turn , save well - recorded Worth ; LXXXVI . Save where some solitary ...
... temples to thy surface bow , Commingling slowly with heroic earth , Broke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth , So perish all in turn , save well - recorded Worth ; LXXXVI . Save where some solitary ...
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... temples gone : Age shakes Athena's tower , but spares gray Marathon . LXXXIX . The sun , the soil , but not the slave , the same ; Unchanged in all except its foreign lord- Preserves alike its bounds and boundless fame , The Battle ...
... temples gone : Age shakes Athena's tower , but spares gray Marathon . LXXXIX . The sun , the soil , but not the slave , the same ; Unchanged in all except its foreign lord- Preserves alike its bounds and boundless fame , The Battle ...
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... temple , will never permit that name to be pronounced by an observer without execration . On this occasion I speak impartially : I am not a col- lector or admirer of collections , consequently no rival ; but I have some early ...
... temple , will never permit that name to be pronounced by an observer without execration . On this occasion I speak impartially : I am not a col- lector or admirer of collections , consequently no rival ; but I have some early ...
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Alban hill Albania Albanian Ali Pacha amongst ancient Ariosto Athens beauty behold beneath blood Boccaccio bosom breast breath brow Cæsar called canto Certaldo charms Childe Harold Childe Harold's Pilgrimage church Cicero clime Constantinople dark death deemed deep doth dust earth Egeria fair fame feel Florence foes gaze glory glow gondoliers Greece Greek hand hath heart Heaven hills Historical Notes honour hope hour immortal Italian Italy Julius Cæsar lake land less light live look Lord Byron maid mind mortal mountains ne'er never o'er once Pacha palace pass passion Petrarch plain poem poet rock Roman Rome ruin says scene seems seen shore sigh smile song soul spirit spot Stanza stream Tasso tears temple thee thine things thou thought throne tomb traveller Turks valley Venetians Venice verse walls waves wild winds woes words youth
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Page 268 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 193 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Page 142 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 251 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 140 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 268 - His steps are not upon thy paths — thy fields Are not a spoil for him— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Page 139 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 154 - The castled Crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine; And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scattered cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strewed a scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
Page 133 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 131 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! Ada ! sole daughter of my house and heart ? When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, But with a hope. — Awaking with a start, The waters heave around me ; and on high The winds lift up their voices : I depart, Whither I know not ; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.