 Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye...  The British Critic: A New Review - Page 6111816Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...LXXXVIII. Ye stars which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,—'tis to be forgiven, That in...fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star. LXXXIX. All heaven and earth are still—though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great,...fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star- CHILDE HAROLD.— Canto III. THUNDER-STORM AMIDST THE ALPS. THK sky is changed ! — and such a change... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,— 'tis o mo D1 hath named them selves a star. , LXXXIX. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 pages
...the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great,...fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most;... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 't is to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great,...fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star. xcn The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong,... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - English literature - 1927 - 310 pages
...heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, 30 That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies...fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most;... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - Europe - 1928 - 454 pages
...the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven That in our aspirations to be great,...fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves star. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in oar aspirations to be great, Our destinies p'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ;...reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, hare named themselves a star. LXXXIX. All heaven and earth are still— though not in sleep, Bat breathless,... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 536 pages
...the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great,...fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star. These are mystical enough, we think; but what follows is nearly as unintelligible as some of the sublimities... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1995 - 412 pages
...are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, - 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great,...mortal state. And claim a kindred with you; for ye arc A beauty and a mystery, and create 830 In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame,... | |
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