Poetical Works, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1866 |
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... least doubt that we should have " adorned a tale " instead of telling one . The crime of assassination is not confined to Portugal : in Sicily and Malta we are knocked on the head at a handsome average nightly , and not a Sicilian or ...
... least doubt that we should have " adorned a tale " instead of telling one . The crime of assassination is not confined to Portugal : in Sicily and Malta we are knocked on the head at a handsome average nightly , and not a Sicilian or ...
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... least in courage , is evident . The late exploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the follies of Cintra . He has , indeed , done wonders : he has , perhaps , chang- ed the character of a nation , reconciled rival superstitions , and ...
... least in courage , is evident . The late exploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the follies of Cintra . He has , indeed , done wonders : he has , perhaps , chang- ed the character of a nation , reconciled rival superstitions , and ...
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... least in conversation ) , and I seized the omen . On the day before , I composed the lines to Parnassus ( in Childe Harold ) , and on beholding the birds , had a hope that Apollo had accepted my homage . I have at least had the name and ...
... least in conversation ) , and I seized the omen . On the day before , I composed the lines to Parnassus ( in Childe Harold ) , and on beholding the birds , had a hope that Apollo had accepted my homage . I have at least had the name and ...
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... least like me , awake ! 8 . Through many a clime ' tis mine to go , With many a retrospection curst ; And all my solace is to know , Whate'er betides , I've known the worst . 9 . What is that worst ? Nay do not ask - In pity from the ...
... least like me , awake ! 8 . Through many a clime ' tis mine to go , With many a retrospection curst ; And all my solace is to know , Whate'er betides , I've known the worst . 9 . What is that worst ? Nay do not ask - In pity from the ...
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... least , the oft - told flames , Which , though sometimes they frown , yet rarely anger dames . XXXIII . Little knew she that seeming marble heart , Now masked in silence or withheld by pride , Was not unskilful in the spoiler's art ...
... least , the oft - told flames , Which , though sometimes they frown , yet rarely anger dames . XXXIII . Little knew she that seeming marble heart , Now masked in silence or withheld by pride , Was not unskilful in the spoiler's art ...
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Page 282 - and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 299 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free. And many a tyrant since : their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 165 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valor, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 153 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 301 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 164 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Page 198 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Page 162 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Page 230 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 198 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee!