With Byron in Italy: Being a Selection of the Poems and Letter of Lord Byron which Have to Do with His Life in Italy from 1816 to 1823A. C. McClurg & Company, 1906 - 327 páginas |
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... For the world's granary : · Birthplace of heroes , sanctuary of saints , Where earthly first , then heavenly glory made Her home . THE PROPHECY OF DANTE . TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION PAGE XV THE YEARS 1817.
... For the world's granary : · Birthplace of heroes , sanctuary of saints , Where earthly first , then heavenly glory made Her home . THE PROPHECY OF DANTE . TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION PAGE XV THE YEARS 1817.
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... glory , and array'd Thy lineaments in beauty that dismay'd Oh ! not dismay'd — but awed , like One above ; And in that sweet severity there was A something which all softness did surpass - I know not how - thy genius master'd mine- My ...
... glory , and array'd Thy lineaments in beauty that dismay'd Oh ! not dismay'd — but awed , like One above ; And in that sweet severity there was A something which all softness did surpass - I know not how - thy genius master'd mine- My ...
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... glory of a clear Italian sky . I also went over the Manfrini Palace , famous for its pictures . Amongst them , there is a portrait of Ariosto by Titian , surpassing all my anticipation of the power of painting or human expression : it ...
... glory of a clear Italian sky . I also went over the Manfrini Palace , famous for its pictures . Amongst them , there is a portrait of Ariosto by Titian , surpassing all my anticipation of the power of painting or human expression : it ...
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... glory . I ne'er shall see thee more . Of love and wonder was for Fare thee well ! As my first glance thee , then take My latest look : thou wilt not beam on one To whom the gifts of life and warmth have been Of a more fatal nature . He ...
... glory . I ne'er shall see thee more . Of love and wonder was for Fare thee well ! As my first glance thee , then take My latest look : thou wilt not beam on one To whom the gifts of life and warmth have been Of a more fatal nature . He ...
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... Glory smiles O'er the far times , when many a subject land Look'd to the wingèd Lion's marble piles , Where Venice sate in state , throned on her hundred isles ! II She looks a sea Cybele , fresh from ocean , Rising with her tiara of ...
... Glory smiles O'er the far times , when many a subject land Look'd to the wingèd Lion's marble piles , Where Venice sate in state , throned on her hundred isles ! II She looks a sea Cybele , fresh from ocean , Rising with her tiara of ...
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With Byron in Italy: A Selection of the Poems and Letters of Lord Byron ... Anna Benneson McMahan,Baron George Gordon Byron Byron Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 81 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within...
Página 92 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Página 60 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Página 285 - Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae...
Página 284 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
Página 100 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone, with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Página 286 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Página 95 - But here, where Murder breathed her bloody steam; And here, where buzzing nations choked the ways, And...
Página 83 - Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind, Chopp'd by the axe, looks rough and little worth, But the sap lasts, — and still the seed we find Sown deep, even in the bosom of the North; So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth.
Página 100 - Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why? It is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.