Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page xliii
... cloud before it 2 ; or drooping as the wild - born falcon with clipt wing 3 ; or impatient of calm and pining like a flame unfed , or a sword rusting ingloriously ; or dreading the leafless desert of the mind , or to drop by dull decay ...
... cloud before it 2 ; or drooping as the wild - born falcon with clipt wing 3 ; or impatient of calm and pining like a flame unfed , or a sword rusting ingloriously ; or dreading the leafless desert of the mind , or to drop by dull decay ...
Page xliv
... cloud ; the hero battling alone is like a glutted tiger mangling in his lair ; warriors assaulting the ramparts are like a pack of wolves tossed by a buffalo ; the opposing force gives way and falls like a cliff undermined by the tides ...
... cloud ; the hero battling alone is like a glutted tiger mangling in his lair ; warriors assaulting the ramparts are like a pack of wolves tossed by a buffalo ; the opposing force gives way and falls like a cliff undermined by the tides ...
Page 33
... clouds along them break , Disclose the dwelling of the mountaineer ; Here roams the wolf , the eagle whets his beak , Birds , beasts of prey , and wilder men appear , And gathering storms around convulse the closing year . XLIII . Now ...
... clouds along them break , Disclose the dwelling of the mountaineer ; Here roams the wolf , the eagle whets his beak , Birds , beasts of prey , and wilder men appear , And gathering storms around convulse the closing year . XLIII . Now ...
Page 52
... cloud onwards : in that Tale I find The furrows of long thought , and dried - up tears , Which , ebbing , leave a sterile track behind , O'er which all heavily the journeying years Plod the last sands of life - where not a flower ...
... cloud onwards : in that Tale I find The furrows of long thought , and dried - up tears , Which , ebbing , leave a sterile track behind , O'er which all heavily the journeying years Plod the last sands of life - where not a flower ...
Page 54
... clouds unfold The star which rises o'er her steep , nor climb ? Harold , once more within the vortex , roll'd On with the giddy circle , chasing Time , Yet with a nobler aim than in his youth's fond prime . XII . ! But soon he knew ...
... clouds unfold The star which rises o'er her steep , nor climb ? Harold , once more within the vortex , roll'd On with the giddy circle , chasing Time , Yet with a nobler aim than in his youth's fond prime . XII . ! But soon he knew ...
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