The GiaourJohn Murray, 1823 |
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... grey pall 290 Waves slowly widening o'er the wall ; The Bat builds in his Haram bower ; And in the fortress of his power The Owl usurps the beacon - tower ; The wild - dog howls o'er the fountain's brim , 14 THE GIAOUR .
... grey pall 290 Waves slowly widening o'er the wall ; The Bat builds in his Haram bower ; And in the fortress of his power The Owl usurps the beacon - tower ; The wild - dog howls o'er the fountain's brim , 14 THE GIAOUR .
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George Gordon Byron Baron Byron. The wild - dog howls o'er the fountain's brim , With baffled thirst , and famine , grim , 295 For the stream has shrunk from its marble bed , Where the weeds and the desolate dust are spread . " Twas ...
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron. The wild - dog howls o'er the fountain's brim , With baffled thirst , and famine , grim , 295 For the stream has shrunk from its marble bed , Where the weeds and the desolate dust are spread . " Twas ...
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... hour , Then leaves him , as it soars on high , With panting heart and tearful eye : So Beauty lures the full - grown child With hue as bright , and wing as wild ; 395 A chase of idle hopes and fears , Begun in C 2 THE GIAOUR . 19.
... hour , Then leaves him , as it soars on high , With panting heart and tearful eye : So Beauty lures the full - grown child With hue as bright , and wing as wild ; 395 A chase of idle hopes and fears , Begun in C 2 THE GIAOUR . 19.
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... wild waves roll'd above " The face I view , the form I love ; " They told me ' twas a hideous tale ! " I'd tell it — but my tongue would fail— 1295 1300 1305 " If true - and from thine ocean - cave " Thou com'st to claim a calmer grave ...
... wild waves roll'd above " The face I view , the form I love ; " They told me ' twas a hideous tale ! " I'd tell it — but my tongue would fail— 1295 1300 1305 " If true - and from thine ocean - cave " Thou com'st to claim a calmer grave ...
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... wild as the accents of lovers ' farewell Are the hearts which they bear , and the tales which they tell . II . 20 Begirt with many a gallant slave , Apparelled as becomes the brave , Awaiting each his Lord's behest To guide his steps ...
... wild as the accents of lovers ' farewell Are the hearts which they bear , and the tales which they tell . II . 20 Begirt with many a gallant slave , Apparelled as becomes the brave , Awaiting each his Lord's behest To guide his steps ...
Términos y frases comunes
accents Amaun apostolic palace arms band beheld beneath blood bosom breast breath bride brow Calpac CANTO cheek Conrad dare dark dead death deed deem deep despair doom dread dream earth Ezzelin falchion fate fear feel fell foes gaze Giaffir Giaour glance grave grief Gulnare hand Haram hate hath head heard heart heaven Hellespont hope horsetails hour Houris knew land Lara Lara's light line 12 lips lonely look LORD BYRON Moslem mourn Mussulman ne'er never night Note numbers o'er once Pacha pale PARISINA passed pride rest rose round sabre scarce seem'd seems Selim she-the shine shore SIEGE OF CORINTH sigh silent slave sleep smile soothe soul sound steed stern stood strife tale tear tell thee thine thou thought Timariot turban Turkish Twas twere voice wave Whate'er wild words wound youth Zuleika's
Pasajes populares
Página 6 - These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own ; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear...
Página 55 - Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven ; " A spark of that immortal fire " With angels shared, by Alia given, " To lift from earth our low desire. " Devotion wafts the mind above, " But Heaven itself descends in love ; " A feeling from the Godhead caught, " To wean from self each sordid thought ; " A Ray of him who form'd the whole ; " A Glory circling round the soul...
Página viii - The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? That for itself can woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight ; That seeks what cravens shun with more than zeal, And where the feebler faint — can only feel — Feel — to the rising bosom's inmost core, Its hope awaken and its spirit soar...
Página 52 - Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear In woman's eye the unanswerable tear That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue at once her spear and shield: Avoid it - Virtue ebbs and Wisdom errs, Too fondly gazing on that grief of hers! What lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye. Yet be the soft triumvir's fault forgiven; By this - how many lose not earth - but heaven!
Página 2 - For there — the Rose o'er crag or vale, Sultana of the Nightingale, The maid for whom his melody, His thousand songs are heard on high, Blooms blushing to her lover's tale...
Página 4 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Página 19 - Sestos' daughter. Oh ! when alone along the sky Her turret-torch was blazing high, Though rising gale, and breaking foam, And shrieking sea-birds warned him home ; And clouds aloft and tides below, With signs and sounds, forbade to go, He could not see, he would not hear > Or sound or sign foreboding fear ; His eye but saw that light of love, The only star it hailed above; His ear but rang with Hero's song, " Ye waves, divide not lovers long !"— That tale is old, but Love anew May nerve young hearts...
Página 14 - He call'd on Nature's self to share the shame, And charged all faults upon the fleshly form She gave to clog the soul, and feast the worm; Till he at last confounded good and ill, And half mistook for fate the acts of will; Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others...
Página 19 - THE winds are high on Helle's wave, As on that night of stormy water When Love, who sent, forgot to save The young, the beautiful, the brave, The lonely hope of Sestos