Lord George Gordon Byron Poems (129 Poems)
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 shade,And hear the warbling birds I the damsels said:The wood-dove from the forest depth shall coo,Like voices of the Gods … Continue reading
Parisina (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale’s high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers’ vows Seem sweet in every whisper’d word:And gentle winds, and waters near,Make music to the lonely ear.Each flower the dews have lightly wet,And … Continue reading
The Island: Canto IV. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.White as a white sail on a dusky sea,When half the horizon ‘s clouded and half free,Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky,Is Hope’s last gleam in Man’s extremity.Her anchor parts; but still her snowy sailAttracts our eye amidst … Continue reading
The Island: Canto I. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.The morning watch was come; the vessel layHer course, and gently made her liquid way;The cloven billow flashed from off her prowIn furrows formed by that majestic plough;The waters with their world were all before;Behind, the South Sea’s many an … Continue reading
The Island: Canto III. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.The fight was o’er; the flashing through the gloom,Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,Had ceased; and sulphury vapours upward drivenHad left the Earth, and but polluted Heaven:The rattling roar which rung in every volleyHad left the echoes … Continue reading
Elegy On Newstead Abbey (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
‘It is the voice of years that are gone!they roll before me with all their deeds.’~OSSIAN Newstead! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion’s shrine! repentant HENRY’s pride!Of warriors, monks, and dames the cloister’d tomb, Whose pensive shades around thy ruins glide,Hail to thy pile! … Continue reading
The Irish Avatar (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
‘And Ireland, like a bastinadoed elephant,kneeling to receive the paltry rider.’~Curran. Ere the daughter of Brunswick is cold in her grave, And her ashes still float to their home o’er the tide,Lo! George the triumphant speeds over the wave, To the long-cherish’d … Continue reading
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 a nameless thing: So abject–yet alive!Is this the man of thousand thrones,Who strew’d our earth with hostile bones, And can he … Continue reading
Stanzas (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Could Love for ever Run like a river, And Time’s endeavour Be tried in vain (Lord George Gordon Byron)
Don Juan: Canto The Seventeenth (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
The world is full of orphans: firstly, those Who are so in the strict sense of the phrase(But many a lonely tree the loftier grows Than others crowded in the forest’s maze);The next are such as are not doomed to lose Their tender … Continue reading
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