There Was A Time, I Need Not Name (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
There was a time, I need not name, Since it will ne'er forgotten be,When all our feelings were the same As still ...
There was a time, I need not name, Since it will ne'er forgotten be,When all our feelings were the same As still ...
I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in ...
From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome,I beheld thee, oh Sion! when render'd to Rome:'Twas thy ...
Thou art not false, but thou art fickle, To those thyself so fondly sought;The tears that thou hast forced to trickle Are ...
Belshazzar! from the banquet turn, Nor in thy sensual fulness fall;Behold! while yet before thee burn The graven words, the glowing wall.Many ...
When we two parted In silence and tears,Half broken-hearted To sever for years,Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss;Truly that hour ...
Oh, Mariamne! now for theeThe heart of which thou bled'st is bleeding;Revenge is lost in agony,And wild remorse to rage ...
Start not--nor deem my spirit fled:In me behold the only skullFrom which, unlike a living head,Whatever flows is never dull.I ...
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, Anne, your offences to me have been grievous: I thought from my wrath no atonement could save you:But woman is ...
Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect, Who to woman deny the soul's future existence!Could they see thee, Eliza, they'd own ...
In one who felt as once he felt This might, perhaps, have fann'd the flame;But now his heart no more will ...
Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen, Full beams the moon on Actium's coast:And on these waves for Egypt's queen, The ancient world ...
Oh, say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreed The heart which adores you should wish to dissever;Such Fates were ...
For Oxford and for WaldegraveYou give much more than me you gave;Which is not fairly to behave, My Murray.Because if a ...
If, in the month of dark December, Leander, who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?) To cross thy stream, ...
You have ask'd for a verse:--the request In a rhymer 'twere strange to deny;But my Hippocrene was but my breast, And my ...
She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in ...
Since our Country, our God -- Oh, my Sire!Demand that thy Daughter expire;Since thy triumph was brought by thy vow--Strike ...
I.We sate down and wept by the waters Of Babel, and thought of the dayWhen our foe, in the hue of ...
Oh! my lonely--lonely--lonely--Pillow!Where is my lover? where is my lover?Is it his bark which my dreary dreams discover?Far--far away! and ...
Maid of Athens, ere we part,Give, oh give me back my heart!Or, since that has left my breast,Keep it now, ...
The kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left Shall never part from mine,Till happier hours restore the giftUntainted back to thine.Thy ...
Stranger! behold, interr'd together,The souls of learning and of leather.Poor Joe is gone, but left his all:You'll find his relics ...
Thine eyes' blue tenderness, thy long fair hair, And the wan lustre of thy features(Lord George Gordon Byron)
Here once engaged the stranger's view Young Friendship's record simply traced;Few were her words; but yet, though few, Resentment's hand the line ...
Thy cheek is pale with thought, but not from woe, And yet so lovely, that if Mirth could flush Its rose of ...
Thy verse is 'sad' enough, no doubt: A devilish deal more sad than witty!Why we should weep I can't find out, Unless ...
To be the father of the fatherless, To stretch the hand from the throne's height, and raise His offspring, who expired in ...
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 ...
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