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 ...
I.White as a white sail on a dusky sea,When half the horizon 's clouded and half free,Fluttering between the dun ...
WANDERER.YOUNG woman, may God bless thee,Thee, and the sucking infantUpon thy breast!Let me, 'gainst this rocky wall,Neath the elm-tree's shadow,Lay ...
On the storm-cloven Cape The bitter waves roll, With the bergs of the Pole,And the darks and the damps of the Northern ...
Tauler, the preacher, walked, one autumn day,Without the walls of Strasburg, by the Rhine,Pondering the solemn Miracle of Life;As one ...
In those dark mornings, deep in June, When brooding birds stir in the nest,And heavy dews slip down the leaves, And drop ...
I tread the vast deserted stageWhereon the Caesars lived and died;The relics of Rome's golden ageLie strewn about me far ...
Mourning Amid The Ruins of An Ancient ChurchThe fields have faded, the groves look dead,The summer is gone, its beauty ...
WHERE, girt with orchard and with olive-yard, The white hill-fortress glimmers on the hill, Day after day an ancient goldsmith's ...
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
IN the Dean's porch a nest of clay With five small tentants may be seen; Five solemn faces, each ...
And thou, in such calm moments, wilt again Stand in that holy silent light which swims With unsung liturgies and ...
For every bird there is this last migration; Once more the cooling year kindles her heart; With a warm passage ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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