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My own Azaziel ! be but here , And leave the stars to their own light ! THE
DEMON OF BATTLE . Hark ! heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note ? Sounds
not the clang of conflict on the heath ? Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote
; Nor ...
My own Azaziel ! be but here , And leave the stars to their own light ! THE
DEMON OF BATTLE . Hark ! heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note ? Sounds
not the clang of conflict on the heath ? Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote
; Nor ...
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Ye stars , which are the poetry of heaven ! ... state , And claim a kindred with you ;
for ye are A beauty and a mystery , and create In us such love and reverence
from afar , That fortune , fame , power , life , have named them . selves a star .
Ye stars , which are the poetry of heaven ! ... state , And claim a kindred with you ;
for ye are A beauty and a mystery , and create In us such love and reverence
from afar , That fortune , fame , power , life , have named them . selves a star .
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Sun of the sleepless ! melancholy star ! ... The Assyrian came down like the wolf
on the fold , And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of
their spears was like stars on the sea , When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep
...
Sun of the sleepless ! melancholy star ! ... The Assyrian came down like the wolf
on the fold , And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of
their spears was like stars on the sea , When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep
...
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Thou material God ! And representative of the UnknownWho chose thee for his
shadow ! Thou chief star ! Centre of many stars ! which makest our earth
Endurable , and temperest the hues And hearts of all who walk within thy rays !
Sire of the ...
Thou material God ! And representative of the UnknownWho chose thee for his
shadow ! Thou chief star ! Centre of many stars ! which makest our earth
Endurable , and temperest the hues And hearts of all who walk within thy rays !
Sire of the ...
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A single star is at her side , and reigns With her o ' er half the lovely heaven ; but
still Yon sunny sea heaves brightly , and remains Rollid o ' er the peak of the far
Rhætian hill , As day and night contending were , until Nature reclaim ' d her ...
A single star is at her side , and reigns With her o ' er half the lovely heaven ; but
still Yon sunny sea heaves brightly , and remains Rollid o ' er the peak of the far
Rhætian hill , As day and night contending were , until Nature reclaim ' d her ...
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Page 66 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ! Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one...
Page 52 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page 66 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come!
Page 148 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 146 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 66 - On Suli's rock and Parga's shore Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore ; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heraclcidan blood might own.
Page 117 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
Page 63 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Page 150 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom...
Page 164 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been...
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| Title | The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works Volume 6 of Howard's beauties of literature |
| Authors | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard |
| Publisher | T. Davison, 1824 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 212 pages |
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