Address, Spoken At The Opening Of Drury-Lane Theatre. Saturday, October 10, 1812 (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd,Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of prideIn one short hour ...
In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd,Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of prideIn one short hour ...
Let us honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the hearth and its graces,The spot where serenely and cheerfully ...
The path of religion is neither in works nor words; there are no buildings thereon, but only desolation. Whoso becomes ...
A gaunt and relentless wolf, possessed Of a quite insatiable thirst, Once paused at a stream to drink and rest, And found that, ...
Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest,Take me once more, like a child, to your breast!Weary of worldliness, turmoil, and hate,Welcome ...
WHILE we keep our Poet's Tercentennial,Every school and city with its emulousAntic or solemnity, what tremulousLaughter on the air! O ...
Fair faces crowd on Christmas night Like seven suns a-row,But all beyond is the wolfish wind And the crafty feet of the ...
Oh, how infinite, how unspeakably great, are the heavens!Yet by frivolity's hand downwards the heavens are pulled!(Friedrich Schiller)
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
"Bill Dwiggins had been Billy thirty years,A boyish name which piqued his clever wife,As if her man were ticketed light-weightOut ...
But a scant 2000 folk, no more, Sitting solemn-faced within the pews,While the parsons preach and outward pour, In divers ...
1I understand the boredom of the clerksfatigue shifting like dunes within their eyesa frightful nausea gumming up the worksthat once ...
Today I saw the shop-girl goDown gay Broadway to meet her beau.Conspicuous, splendid, conscious, sweet,She spread abroad and took the ...
BECAUSE I know that there is that in me Of which thou shouldst be proud, and not ashamed,-- Because I ...
a connotation of infinitysharpens the temporal splendor of this nightwhen souls which have forgot frivolityin lowliness, noting the fatal flightof ...
Oh, how infinite, how unspeakably great, are the heavens! Yet by frivolity's hand downwards the heavens are ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
Oh, how infinite, how unspeakably great, are the heavens! Yet by frivolity's hand downwards the heavens are pulled! (Friedrich von ...
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