Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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... bright ! To the Elizabethan romanticists he ' owes little directly . Indebtedness to Marlowe he disavowed . Shakespere he knew as all the great modern poets know him ; but he quotes Falstaff and " Henry IV " perhaps quite as often as ...
... bright ! To the Elizabethan romanticists he ' owes little directly . Indebtedness to Marlowe he disavowed . Shakespere he knew as all the great modern poets know him ; but he quotes Falstaff and " Henry IV " perhaps quite as often as ...
Page 49
... bright clime of battle and of song ; Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore : Boast of the aged ! lesson of the young ! Which sages venerate and bards adore , As Pallas and the Muse ...
... bright clime of battle and of song ; Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore : Boast of the aged ! lesson of the young ! Which sages venerate and bards adore , As Pallas and the Muse ...
Page 55
... bright As their own beams ; and earth , and earth - born jars , And human frailties , were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight , He had been happy ; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal , envying it the ...
... bright As their own beams ; and earth , and earth - born jars , And human frailties , were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight , He had been happy ; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal , envying it the ...
Page 58
... 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 look'd love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ...
... 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 look'd love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ...
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... bright names will hallow song ; And his was of the bravest , and when shower'd The death - bolts deadliest the thinn'd files along , Even where the thickest of war's tempest lower'd , They reach'd no nobler breast than thine , young ...
... bright names will hallow song ; And his was of the bravest , and when shower'd The death - bolts deadliest the thinn'd files along , Even where the thickest of war's tempest lower'd , They reach'd no nobler breast than thine , young ...
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