Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
'Expends Annibalem:--quot libras in duce summoInvenies?~JUVENAL., Sat. X.I.Tis done--but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive--And now thou art ...
'Expends Annibalem:--quot libras in duce summoInvenies?~JUVENAL., Sat. X.I.Tis done--but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive--And now thou art ...
Far in the heart of Island-solitudeOur tent was pitched, beneath a grove of oaks.A scene more solemn never hermit choseFor ...
Violets peer out in streaksOn the covered ribsOf hills, and meet the airIn a million tremblingLips on fields throughout the ...
0 RAINBOW of the battle-storm!Methinks thou 'rt gleaming on my sight;I see thy fair and fragile formAmid the thick cloud ...
Can this be thou who, lean and pale, With such immitigable eyeDidst look upon those writhing souls in bale, And note each ...
Behold, with empty socketsStaring o'er the desert's way;Mutely countenancing the tragediesOf ages; crawled o'er as by gnats,By tribes that in ...
for Mogens LorentzenTaking funas simply funand sternly taking sternnesssuch a onehas not discernedjust which is which in earnest. (Piet Hein)
NOW Winter pours his terrors o'er the plain,And icy barriers close the wild domain,From the fierce North the sweeping blast ...
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
THE WIDOW'S TALE.To Farmer Moss, in Langar Vale, came down,His only daughter, from her school in town;A tender, timid maid! ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
Hast thou a scene that is not spreadWith records of thy glory fled?A monument that doth not tellThe tale of ...
No cloud to dim the splendour of the dayWhich breaks o'er Naples and her lovely bay,And lights that brilliant sea ...
A MOMENT since, he stood unmoved--alone; Courage and thought on his resolvēd brow; But hope is quivering in the broken ...
I have been long without a home, And yearned too much for one; And scanty are the deeds of faith ...
IThe shepherd, with his eye on hazy South,Has told of rain upon the fall of day.But promise is there none ...
II love this ocean picture's pale reserve:No tints unnatural of purpling grain,Azure, or opal, mar the rough grey main,The sweep, ...
O busy ships! that smile in sailingIn a gloryLike a dream,From the colors of the harbor to the colors of ...
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
Ah, that Time could touch a form That could show what Homer's age Bred to be a hero's wage. 'Were ...
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