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 ...
I.White as a white sail on a dusky sea,When half the horizon 's clouded and half free,Fluttering between the dun ...
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! ...
High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:Placed on his chair of state, he ...
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 ...
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone ...
Remember him, whom Passion's power Severely--deeply--vainly proved:Remember thou that dangerous hour, When neither fell, though both were loved.That yielding breast, that melting ...
I.From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome,I beheld thee, Oh Sion! when rendered to Rome:'Twas thy ...
From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome,I beheld thee, oh Sion! when render'd to Rome:'Twas thy ...
Start not--nor deem my spirit fled:In me behold the only skullFrom which, unlike a living head,Whatever flows is never dull.I ...
If, in the month of dark December, Leander, who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?) To cross thy stream, ...
Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be,I need not have wander'd from far Galilee;It was but ...
A spirit passed before me: I beheldThe face of immortality unveiled--Deep sleep came down on every eye save mine--And there ...
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