Lord Byron's Select Works: Consisting of Cain ... Hours of Idleness; English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; with Occasional Pieces; and Life of the AuthorC. Daly, 1841 - 320 páginas |
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... Hast thou ne'er bow'd Cain . Have I not said it ? need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ? Luc . He who bows not to him has bow'd to me ! Cain . But I will bend to neither . Luc . Ne'er the less , Thou art my ...
... Hast thou ne'er bow'd Cain . Have I not said it ? need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ? Luc . He who bows not to him has bow'd to me ! Cain . But I will bend to neither . Luc . Ne'er the less , Thou art my ...
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... hast labour'd not This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens : Come away . Cain . Adah . See'st thou not ? I see an angel ; We have seen many : will he share our hour Of rest ? he ...
... hast labour'd not This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens : Come away . Cain . Adah . See'st thou not ? I see an angel ; We have seen many : will he share our hour Of rest ? he ...
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... Hast pluck'd a fruit more fatal to thine offspring Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast past Thy youth in paradise , in innocent And happy intercourse with happy spirits ; But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , Are girt about by ...
... Hast pluck'd a fruit more fatal to thine offspring Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast past Thy youth in paradise , in innocent And happy intercourse with happy spirits ; But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , Are girt about by ...
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... Hast thou seen him ? But in his being ? No : Save in my father , who is God's own image ; Or in his angels , who are like to thee- And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful In seeming as the silent sunny noon , All light they look ...
... Hast thou seen him ? But in his being ? No : Save in my father , who is God's own image ; Or in his angels , who are like to thee- And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful In seeming as the silent sunny noon , All light they look ...
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... hast heard , If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits Which shall deprive thee of a single good The conqueror has left thee . Follow me . Cain . Spirit , I have said it . [ Exeunt ...
... hast heard , If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits Which shall deprive thee of a single good The conqueror has left thee . Follow me . Cain . Spirit , I have said it . [ Exeunt ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abel Adah art thou bard beautiful behold beneath blest blood bosom breast breath brother brow Cain Calmar canst Catullus cheek curse dare dark dead dear death deeds dost thou dread dream Dunciad dwell E'en earth Edinburgh Review eyes fair fame fate father fear feel foes fond friendship gentle Giaour glory glow grave hail hate hath heart heaven honour hope hour immortal kiss lips live Lochlin look Lord Byron love's last adieu lyre Mathon mind mortal muse ne'er never Newstead Abbey night Nisus and Euryalus numbers o'er once Orla Oscar Pallas pangs perchance poem praise resign rhyme Samian wine scarce scene seem'd shalt shine sigh sire sleep smile song soul spirit sweet tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought truth twas twill verse voice wave weep wilt wing youth Zillah
Pasajes populares
Página 241 - The dew of the morning Sunk chill on my brow; It felt like the warning Of what I feel now. Thy vows are all broken, And light is thy fame: I hear thy name spoken And share in its shame. They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear; A shudder comes o'er me — Why wert thou so dear? They know not I knew thee Who knew thee too well : Long, long shall I rue thee Too deeply to tell.
Página 264 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, "With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 263 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 211 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest . Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Página 245 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Página 2 - Souls who dare use their immortality — Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good!
Página 128 - Shades of the dead ! have I not heard your voices Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale!" Surely the soul of the hero rejoices, And rides on the wind o'er his own Highland vale.
Página 293 - Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray; An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — not A groan o'er his untimely lot ! A little talk of better days, A little hope my own...
Página 263 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
Página 244 - What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one, arise,— we come, we come!