The Island: Canto II. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,When Summer's Sun went down the coral bay!Come, let us to the islet's softest ...
I.How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,When Summer's Sun went down the coral bay!Come, let us to the islet's softest ...
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet ...
I.White as a white sail on a dusky sea,When half the horizon 's clouded and half free,Fluttering between the dun ...
I.The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,Had ceased; and sulphury ...
High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:Placed on his chair of state, he ...
Chill and mirk is the nightly blast, Where Pindus' mountains rise,And angry clouds are pouring fast The vengeance of the skies.Our guides ...
'Tis done -- and shivering in the galeThe bark unfurls her snowy sail;And whistling o'er the bending mast,Loud sings on ...
There was a sound of revelry by night,And Belgium's capital had gathered thenHer beauty and her chivalry, and brightThe lamps ...
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token,These follies had not, then, been mine, For, ...
Oh Lady! when I left the shore, The distant shore which gave me birth,I hardly thought to grieve once more To quit ...
THE FOLLOWING ILLIBERAL IMPROMPTU APPEARED IN A MORNING PAPER:'Our nation's foes lament on Fox's death,But bless the hour when PITT ...
Ah! Love was never yet withoutThe pang, the agony, the doubt,Which rends my heart with ceaseless sigh,While day and night ...
I.Farewell to the Land where the gloom of my GloryArose and o'ershadow'd the earth with her name--She abandons me now--but ...
I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in ...
Thou art not false, but thou art fickle, To those thyself so fondly sought;The tears that thou hast forced to trickle Are ...
When we two parted In silence and tears,Half broken-hearted To sever for years,Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss;Truly that hour ...
Oh, Mariamne! now for theeThe heart of which thou bled'st is bleeding;Revenge is lost in agony,And wild remorse to rage ...
If, in the month of dark December, Leander, who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?) To cross thy stream, ...
Since our Country, our God -- Oh, my Sire!Demand that thy Daughter expire;Since thy triumph was brought by thy vow--Strike ...
When, from the heart where Sorrow sits, Her dusky shadow mounts too high,And o'er the changing aspect flits, And clouds the brow, ...
Beneath Blessington's eyes The reclaimed ParadiseShould be free as the former from evil; But if the new Eve For an Apple should grieve,What ...
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