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 ...
I.The morning watch was come; the vessel layHer course, and gently made her liquid way;The cloven billow flashed from off ...
I.The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,Had ceased; and sulphury ...
'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! ...
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 ...
Sweet girl! though only once we met,That meeting I shall ne'er forget;And though we ne'er may meet again,Remembrance will thy ...
THE FOLLOWING ILLIBERAL IMPROMPTU APPEARED IN A MORNING PAPER:'Our nation's foes lament on Fox's death,But bless the hour when PITT ...
Your pardon, my friend, if my rhymes did offend; Your pardon, a thousand times o'er:From friendship I strove your pangs to ...
Spot of my youth! whose hoary branches sigh,Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky;Where now alone I muse, ...
The chain I gave was fair to view, The lute I added sweet in sound;The heart that offer'd both was true, And ...
Oh, say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreed The heart which adores you should wish to dissever;Such Fates were ...
When Man, expell'd from Eden's bowers, A moment linger'd near the gate,Each scene recall'd the vanish'd hours, And bade him curse his ...
When Dryden's fool, 'unknowing what he sought,'His hours in whistling spent, 'for want of thought,'This guiltless oaf his vacancy of ...
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