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... blood from Spartans ! Though these did not weep Their boys who died in battle , is it written That they beheld them perish piecemeal , nor Stretch'd forth a hand to save them ? DOGE . You behold me : I cannot weep - I would I could ...
... blood from Spartans ! Though these did not weep Their boys who died in battle , is it written That they beheld them perish piecemeal , nor Stretch'd forth a hand to save them ? DOGE . You behold me : I cannot weep - I would I could ...
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... blood flow , and your flesh shook not ; And , after that , what are a woman's words ? No more than woman's tears , that they should shake you . DOGE . Woman , this clamorous grief of thine , I tell thee , Is no more in the balance weigh ...
... blood flow , and your flesh shook not ; And , after that , what are a woman's words ? No more than woman's tears , that they should shake you . DOGE . Woman , this clamorous grief of thine , I tell thee , Is no more in the balance weigh ...
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... blood and kin to shrink from us In fatal moments ? ' DOGE . I shrank not from him : But I have other duties than a father's ; The state would not dispense me from those duties ; Twice I demanded it , but was refused , They must then be ...
... blood and kin to shrink from us In fatal moments ? ' DOGE . I shrank not from him : But I have other duties than a father's ; The state would not dispense me from those duties ; Twice I demanded it , but was refused , They must then be ...
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... blood , in mind , in means ; and that they know Who dreaded to elect me , and have since Striven all they dare to weigh me down : be sure , Before or since that period , had I held you At so much price as to require your absence , A ...
... blood , in mind , in means ; and that they know Who dreaded to elect me , and have since Striven all they dare to weigh me down : be sure , Before or since that period , had I held you At so much price as to require your absence , A ...
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... blood and quiet , Safety , and all save honour , the decrees , The health , the pride , and welfare of the state . And now , sir , to your business . LOREDANO . ' Tis decreed , That , without farther repetition of The question , or ...
... blood and quiet , Safety , and all save honour , the decrees , The health , the pride , and welfare of the state . And now , sir , to your business . LOREDANO . ' Tis decreed , That , without farther repetition of The question , or ...
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Page 356 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away...
Page 359 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave, Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Page 368 - With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they ? We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell ! In quiet we had learn'd to dwell. My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what we are ; — even I Regain'd my freedom with a sigh.
Page 362 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender, kind, And grieved for those he left behind : With all the while a cheek whose bloom...
Page 118 - tis the land of the Sun — Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done? Oh! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell.
Page 189 - There, in its centre, a sepulchral lamp Burns the slow flame, eternal — but unseen; Which not the darkness of despair can damp, Though vain its ray as it had never been.
Page 365 - None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think.
Page 363 - Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath — My brothers — both had ceased to breathe.
Page 117 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 367 - Oh, thou beautiful And unimaginable ether ! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights ! what are ye ? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ? Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion — at which my soul aches to think — Intoxicated with eternity...