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Page 110
... write on page , The period meant precisely by that word , - Which surely is exceedingly absurd . XXIII . Laura was blooming still , had made the best Of time , and time returned the compliment , And treated her genteelly , so that ...
... write on page , The period meant precisely by that word , - Which surely is exceedingly absurd . XXIII . Laura was blooming still , had made the best Of time , and time returned the compliment , And treated her genteelly , so that ...
Page 118
... writer , more especially Of women , would be understood to say , He speaks as a spectator , not officially , And always , reader , in a modest way ; Perhaps , too , in no very great degree shall he Appear to have offended in this lay ...
... writer , more especially Of women , would be understood to say , He speaks as a spectator , not officially , And always , reader , in a modest way ; Perhaps , too , in no very great degree shall he Appear to have offended in this lay ...
Page 120
... writing What should be easy reading ! could I scale Parnassus , where the Muses sit inditing Those pretty poems never known to fail , How quickly would I print ( the world delighting ) A Grecian , Syrian , or Assyrian tale ; And sell ...
... writing What should be easy reading ! could I scale Parnassus , where the Muses sit inditing Those pretty poems never known to fail , How quickly would I print ( the world delighting ) A Grecian , Syrian , or Assyrian tale ; And sell ...
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... write , and so , they don't affect the muse ; Were never caught in epigram or witticism , Have no romances , sermons , plays , reviews , — In harams learning soon would make a pretty schism ! But luckily these beauties are no " blues ...
... write , and so , they don't affect the muse ; Were never caught in epigram or witticism , Have no romances , sermons , plays , reviews , — In harams learning soon would make a pretty schism ! But luckily these beauties are no " blues ...
Page 131
... writing names would merit reprehension , Yet if you like to find out this fair she , At the next London or Parisian ball You still may mark her cheek , out - blooming all . LXXXV . Laura , who knew it would not do at all To meet the ...
... writing names would merit reprehension , Yet if you like to find out this fair she , At the next London or Parisian ball You still may mark her cheek , out - blooming all . LXXXV . Laura , who knew it would not do at all To meet the ...
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bard beauty Behold beneath Beppo blest blood Bonnivard breath brow call'd CAMOENS CAPEL LOFFT Cavalier Servente cheek CHILLON cold Corinth dare dark Darvell dead death Deloraine dread dull Dunciad dungeon earth Edinburgh Review Epic eyes fame fear feel fell felt follies Geneve genius GIFFORD glance hand hath head heard heart heaven Hetman hope hour Laura limbs living look look'd Lord lyre Lyrical Ballads Mazeppa Minotti Muse ne'er never night Note numbers o'er once pain Parisina pass'd perchance poem praise prince PRISONER OF CHILLON rhyme roll'd Satire scarce seem'd shore SIEGE OF CORINTH sigh sire sleep smile song sonnets sons soul sound SOUTHEY spirit steed stood strain tears thee thine thing thou thought thousand throng Turcoman turn'd twas Venice verse voice wall waves wild wish'd words youth
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Page 49 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Page 23 - Fashion'd by long forgotten hands ; Two or three columns, and many a stone, Marble and granite, with grass o'ergrown ! Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 55 - And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when winds were high And wanton in the happy sky; And then the very rock hath rock'd, And I have felt it shake unshock'd, Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free.
Page 53 - Twas still some solace, in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth, To hearken to each other's speech, And each turn comforter to each With some new hope or legend old, Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold.
Page 64 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count, I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Page 51 - PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare...
Page 61 - For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone, — Lone — as the corse within its shroud, Lone — as a solitary cloud, A single cloud on a sunny day, While all the rest of heaven is clear, A frown upon the atmosphere, That hath no business to appear When skies are blue, and earth is gay.
Page 62 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Page 75 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure, Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away.(l) n.
Page 58 - 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 to raise.