Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high,Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name ...
Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high,Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name ...
In the valley of the waters we wept o'er the dayWhen the host of the stranger made Salem his prey,And ...
Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be,I need not have wander'd from far Galilee;It was but ...
In moments to delight devoted, 'My life!' with tenderest tone you cry;Dear words! on which my heart had doted, If youth could ...
I.Warriors and Chiefs! should the shaft or the swordPierce me in leading the host of the Lord,Heed not the corse, ...
When Dryden's fool, 'unknowing what he sought,'His hours in whistling spent, 'for want of thought,'This guiltless oaf his vacancy of ...
A spirit passed before me: I beheldThe face of immortality unveiled--Deep sleep came down on every eye save mine--And there ...
Absent or present, still to thee, My friend, what magic spells belong!As all can tell, who share, like me, In turn thy ...
When Thurlow this damn'd nonsense sent(I hope I am not violent),Nor men nor gods knew what he meant.And since not ...
IN THIS BOOK A TRAVELLER HAD WRITTEN:(Lord George Gordon Byron)
What matter the pangs of a husband and father, If his sorrows in exile be great or be small,So the Pharisee's ...
Unhappy Dives! in an evil hour'Gainst Nature's voice seduced to deeds accurst!Once Fortune's minion, now thou feel'st her power;Wrath's vial ...
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By ...
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours;Let him think ...
The Son of Love and Lord of War I sing; Him who bade England bow to Normandy And left the name of ...
Oh, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now;Cato died for his country, so didst thou:He perish'd rather than see Rome en(Lord George ...
When, from the heart where Sorrow sits, Her dusky shadow mounts too high,And o'er the changing aspect flits, And clouds the brow, ...
As o'er the cold sepulchral stone Some name arrests the passer-by;Thus, when thou view'st this page alone, May mine attract thy pensive ...
Ill-fated Heart! And can it be, That thou should'st thus be rent in vain?Have years of care for thine and thee Alike ...
The spell is broke; the charm is flown! Thus is it with life's fitful fever:We madly smile when we should groan: Delirium ...
To the tune of 'Why, how now, saucy jade?'Why, how now, saucy Tom? If you thus must ramble,I will publish some Remarks ...
Dear object of defeated care! Though now of Love and thee bereft,To reconcile me with despair, Thing image and any tears are ...
Weep, daughter of a royal line, A Sire's disgrace, a realm's decay;Ah! happy if each tear of thine Could wash a father's ...
'Hic est, quem legis, ille, quern requiris, Tota notus in orbe Martialis,' &c.He unto whom thou art so partial,Oh, reader ...
Once fairly set out on his party of pleasure,Taking towns at his liking, and crowns at his leisure,From Elba to ...
JOHN ADAMS lies here, of the parish of Southwell,A Carrier who carried his can to his mouth well:He carried so ...
The 'Origin of Love!'--Ah why That cruel question ask of me,When thou may'st read in many an eye He starts to life ...
Good plays are scarce:So Moore writes farce.The poet's fame grows brittle--We knew beforeThat Little's Moore,But now 'tis Moore that's little. September ...
Beneath Blessington's eyes The reclaimed ParadiseShould be free as the former from evil; But if the new Eve For an Apple should grieve,What ...
Oh how I wish that an embargoHad kept in port the good ship Argo!Who, still unlaunch'd from Grecian docks,Had never ...
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