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 ...
Thus in altemate uproar and sad peace,Amazed were those Titans utterly.O leave them, Muse! O leave them to their woes;For thou ...
SCALY with poison, bright with flame,Great fungi steam beside the gate,Run tentacles through flagstone cracks,Or claw beyond, where meditateWet poplars ...
Raised to account for the late return of a Messenger.The sun went down in wrath;The skies foam'd brass, and soon ...
I LAY on Delos of the CycladesAt evening, on a cape of golden land; The blind Bard's book was open ...
Standing aloof in giant ignorance,Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,As one who sits ashore and longs perchanceTo visit ...
But, under all, my heart believes the dayWas not diviner over Athens, norThe West wind sweeter thro' the CycladesThan here ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
There was a sudden stir, Ages ago, on the Ӕgean Sea. With a loud cry, as of great agony, The ...
Ere yet upon the unhappy Arctic lands, In dying autumn, Erebus descends With the night's thousand hours, along ...
This boat you see, friends, will tell youthat she was the fastest of craft,not to be challenged for speedby any ...
Hear the choir of boy and maid,Mighty child of mightiest Jove,Thou whom royal mother laidIn the Delian olive grove— That ...
Standing aloof in giant ignorance, Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades, As one who sits ashore and longs ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind ...
Child of a line accurst And old as Troy, Bringer of best and worst In wild alloy- Light, like a ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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