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... lives , and barter breath for fame : Fame that will scarce reanimate their clay , Though thousands fall to deck some single name . In sooth ' twere sad to thwart their noble aim Who strike , blest hirelings ! for their country's good ...
... lives , and barter breath for fame : Fame that will scarce reanimate their clay , Though thousands fall to deck some single name . In sooth ' twere sad to thwart their noble aim Who strike , blest hirelings ! for their country's good ...
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... live in vain- Twined with my heart , and can I deem thee dead , When busy Memory flashes on my brain ? Well - I will dream that we may meet again , And woo the vision to my vacant breast : If aught of young Remembrance then remain , Be ...
... live in vain- Twined with my heart , and can I deem thee dead , When busy Memory flashes on my brain ? Well - I will dream that we may meet again , And woo the vision to my vacant breast : If aught of young Remembrance then remain , Be ...
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... breast imbued with such immortal fire ? Could she not live who life eternal gave ? If life eternal may await the lyre , That only Heaven to which Earth's children may aspire . XL . ' Twas on a Grecian autumn's gentle eve 48 CHILDE HAROLD'S.
... breast imbued with such immortal fire ? Could she not live who life eternal gave ? If life eternal may await the lyre , That only Heaven to which Earth's children may aspire . XL . ' Twas on a Grecian autumn's gentle eve 48 CHILDE HAROLD'S.
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... live ? Let those guns so unerring such vengeance forego ? What mark is so fair as the breast of a foe ? 4 . Macedonia sends forth her invincible race ; For a time they abandon the cave and the chase : But those scarfs of blood - red ...
... live ? Let those guns so unerring such vengeance forego ? What mark is so fair as the breast of a foe ? 4 . Macedonia sends forth her invincible race ; For a time they abandon the cave and the chase : But those scarfs of blood - red ...
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... 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 . What am I ? Nothing ; but not so art thou , Soul of my thought ! with whom I traverse earth , Invisible but gazing ...
... 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 . What am I ? Nothing ; but not so art thou , Soul of my thought ! with whom I traverse earth , Invisible but gazing ...
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Page 72 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness: And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts; and choking sighs. Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 71 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet...
Page 146 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 77 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 136 - 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. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Page 120 - 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.
Page 72 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 147 - 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 146 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 147 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed— in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible...