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 morning watch was come; the vessel layHer course, and gently made her liquid way;The cloven billow flashed from off ...
'It is the voice of years that are gone!they roll before me with all their deeds.'~OSSIANNewstead! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! ...
High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:Placed on his chair of state, he ...
Few years have pass'd since thou and I Were firmest friends, at least in name,And childhood's gay sincerity Preserved our feelings long ...
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious Queen of childish joys,Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys;At ...
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone ...
'O lachrymarum fons, tenero sacrosDucentium ortus ex animo; quaterFelix! in imo qui scatentemPectore te, pia Nympha, sensit.'~GRAYWhen Friendship or Love ...
'Tis done -- and shivering in the galeThe bark unfurls her snowy sail;And whistling o'er the bending mast,Loud sings on ...
Remember him, whom Passion's power Severely--deeply--vainly proved:Remember thou that dangerous hour, When neither fell, though both were loved.That yielding breast, that melting ...
Young Oak! when I planted thee deep in the ground, I hoped that thy days would be longer than mine;That thy ...
'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move:Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me ...
Fill the goblet again! for I never beforeFelt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core;Let us drink!--who ...
Spot of my youth! whose hoary branches sigh,Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky;Where now alone I muse, ...
The King was on his throne,The Satraps throng'd the hall:A thousand bright lamps shoneO'er that high festival.A thousand cups of ...
Oh, Anne, your offences to me have been grievous: I thought from my wrath no atonement could save you:But woman is ...
Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen, Full beams the moon on Actium's coast:And on these waves for Egypt's queen, The ancient world ...
You have ask'd for a verse:--the request In a rhymer 'twere strange to deny;But my Hippocrene was but my breast, And my ...
Here once engaged the stranger's view Young Friendship's record simply traced;Few were her words; but yet, though few, Resentment's hand the line ...
In moments to delight devoted, 'My life!' with tenderest tone you cry;Dear words! on which my heart had doted, If youth could ...
Youth, Nature, and relenting Jove,To keep my Lamp in strongly strove;But Romanelli was so stout,He beat all three, and blew ...
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