The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1J. Murray, 1823 - Bookbinding |
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... Heaven hath done for this delicious land ! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree ! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand ! But man would mar them with an impious hand : And when the Almighty lifts his fiercest scourge ...
... Heaven hath done for this delicious land ! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree ! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand ! But man would mar them with an impious hand : And when the Almighty lifts his fiercest scourge ...
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... Heaven by making earth a Hell . XXI . And here and there , as up the crags you spring , Mark many rude - carved crosses near the path : Yet deem not these devotion's offering- These are memorials frail of murderous wrath : For wheresoe ...
... Heaven by making earth a Hell . XXI . And here and there , as up the crags you spring , Mark many rude - carved crosses near the path : Yet deem not these devotion's offering- These are memorials frail of murderous wrath : For wheresoe ...
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... heaven to thine estate , See how the Mighty shrink into a song ! Can Volume , Pillar , Pile preserve thee great ? Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue , When Flattery sleeps with thee , and History does thee wrong ? XXXVII ...
... heaven to thine estate , See how the Mighty shrink into a song ! Can Volume , Pillar , Pile preserve thee great ? Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue , When Flattery sleeps with thee , and History does thee wrong ? XXXVII ...
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... -and at his iron feet Destruction cowers to mark what deeds are done ; For on this morn three potent nations meet , To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet . XL . By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight CANTO I. 41 PILGRIMAGE .
... -and at his iron feet Destruction cowers to mark what deeds are done ; For on this morn three potent nations meet , To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet . XL . By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight CANTO I. 41 PILGRIMAGE .
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George Gordon Byron Baron Byron. XL . By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see ( For one who hath no friend , no brother there ) Their rival scarfs of mix'd embroidery , Their various arms that glitter in the air ! What gallant war ...
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron. XL . By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see ( For one who hath no friend , no brother there ) Their rival scarfs of mix'd embroidery , Their various arms that glitter in the air ! What gallant war ...
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Acarnania Achelous adieu Albanese Albania Albanian Ali Pacha amongst ancient Arnaout Athens aught beautiful behold beneath blood bosom breast Caimacam Caliriote caloyer CANTO Childe Harold CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE clime Constantinople Coray dark dear deeds deem'd doth dread dwell earth Epirus ev'n fair fame feel gaze Giaour Greece Greeks hand hath heart Heaven honour hour Joannina land line last lone Lord Mafra maid mingling mortal Moslem mountains native ne'er never night o'er once Pacha pass'd plain Pouqueville rock Romaic scarce scene shore shrine sigh slave smile song sooth soul Spain Stanza tear thee thine thing Thornton thou thought Thrasybulus throng Turkish Turks walls waves wild youth Zitza ἀπὸ δὲν διὰ Ἐγὼ εἶναι εἰς ἐν καὶ κὴ μὲ νὰ σᾶς σε τὰ τὰς τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τῶν ὡς
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Page 237 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 236 - 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...
Page 238 - Cameron's gathering" rose ! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard too have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 253 - 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 blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
Page 228 - 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 88 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flattered, followed, sought and sued ; This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
Page 263 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Page 117 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? no ! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame.
Page 226 - Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Page 271 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.