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which poets prone to lie have paved with gold which poets sprinkle o'er with sands of gold which fabling poets
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who hate the very hand that waves the sword to shield them etc to guard them etc
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from rock to rock blue columns soaring loft in sulphury wreath fragments on fragments in contention knock
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there shall they rot while rhymers tell the fools how honour decks the turf that wraps their clay liars avaunt
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the seal love's rosy finger has imprest on her fair chin denotes how soft his touch her lips where kisses make voluptuous nest
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though in lieu of true devotion monkish temples share the hours misspent and all in turns is love or prayer
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the warrior's weapon and the sophist's stole are sought in vain and o'er each mouldering tower dim with the mist of years gray flits the shade of power
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what leagues are lost before the dawn of day thus loitering pensive on the willing seas the flapping sail hauled down to halt for logs like these
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ah happy years once more who would not be a boy
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the cross descends thy minarets arise and the pale crescent sparkles in the glen through many a cypress-grove within each city's ken
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gives hope to the valiant and promise of war all the sons of the mountains arise at the note chimariot illyrian and dark suliote
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greece change thy lords thy state is still the same thy glorious day is o'er but not thine years of shame
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reason thus with life if i do lose thee i do lose a thing that none but fools would keep
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this be the wittol picts ignoble boast to rive what goth and turk and time hath spared cold and accursed as his native coast
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one was olympias the floating snake roll'd round her ankles round her waist knotted etc
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and roused him more from thought than he was wont while pleasure almost seemed to smooth his pallid front while pleasure almost smiled along
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yet here and there some daring mountain-band disdain his power and from their rocky hold hurl their defiance far nor yield unless to gold
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caliriotes with the dark eyes open the gate that i may enter
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if i have kissed thee what hast thou gained my soul is consumed with fire
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i am wounded by thy love and have loved but to scorch myself
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i have said i wish no dowry but thine eyes and eyelashes
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this puissant spirit yet shall reascend self-raised and repossess its native seat
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and is this all the world has gained by thee thou first and last of fields king-making victory
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arm arm it is it is the cannon's opening roar
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out of these create he can forms more real than living man nurslings of immortality
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here his last flight the haughty eagle flew then tore with bloody beak the fatal plain pierced with the shafts of banded nations through
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here his last flight the haughty eagle flew then bit with bloody beak the rent plain then tore with bloody beak
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be just be grateful nor the oppressor's creed reviving heavier chastisement deserve than ever forced unpitied hearts to bleed
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and wakening citizens with terror dumb or whispering with pale lips the foe they come they come or whispering with pale lips the desolation's come
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yet nature everywhere resumed her course low pansies to the sun their purple gave and the soft poppy blossomed on the grave
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greater than in thy fortunes for in them ambition lured thee on too far to show that true habitual scorn
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more mighty scenes may rise more glaring shine but none unite in one enchanted gaze the fertile fair and soft the glories of old days
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the pilgrim of eternity whose fame over his living head like heaven is bent an early but enduring monument
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but to be a link reluctant in a living chain classing with creatures
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it is a beauteous evening calm and free the holy time is quiet as a nun breathless with adoration
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fame is the dream of boyhood i am not so young as to regard the frown or smile of crowds as making an immortal lot
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there hang nine targats at johnie's hat and ilk ane worth three hundred pound but the sword of honour and the crown
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the army of the sambre and meuse to its commander-in-chief hoche
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visto ho toscana lombardia romagna quel monte che divide e quel che serra italia e un mare e l'altro che la bagna
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your obliged and affectionate friend byron
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better be whelmed beneath the waves and shun even in destruction's depth her foreign foes from whom submission wrings an infamous repose
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and boileau whose rash envy could allow no strain which shamed his country's creaking lyre that whetstone of the teeth monotony in wire
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europe repentant of her parricide shall yet redeem thee and all backward driven roll the barbarian tide and sue to be forgiven
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and only not to desperation driven because not altogether of such clay as rots into the souls of those whom i survey
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it must be so plato thou reason'st well else whence this pleasing hope this fond desire this longing after immortality
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in venice 'but's' a traitor but me no 'buts ' unless you would pass o'er the bridge which few repass
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oh the day too soon will break and wake us to our sorrow come come to bed and bid thy cares good night
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and may be that which springs spreads
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the past at least is mine whate'er may come but when the heart is full the lips must needs lie dumb or else mine now were cold and dumb
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how beautiful is sunset when the glow of heaven descends upon a land like thee thou paradise of exiles italy
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the clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality
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a la fois tous vos fronts comme un char en passant couvre le bruit des ailes de mille moucherons
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atque ita suspiciens tereti cervice reposta pascit amore avidos inhians in te dea visus eque tuo pendet resupini spiritus ore
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alas for tully's voice and titus' sway and virgil's verse the first and last must be her resurrection
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how supine into such dust deserted rome should fade or in self-woven sackcloth rome should thus be laid
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the earth beneath her shadow and displayed her wings as with the horizon and was hailed or the rushings of his wings and was almighty hailed
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and so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe and then from hour to hour we rot and rot and thereby hangs a tale
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rome has fallen ye see it lying heaped in undistinguished ruin nature is alone undying
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wherein have creeped the reptiles which or scorpion and blindworm
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as a violet's gentle eye gazes on the azure sky until its hue grows like what it beholds
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feel the quick throbbing of a human heart and the sweet sorrows of its deathless dying or and the sweet sorrow which exults in dying
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a fiery soul which working out its way fretted the pigmy-body to decay and o'er-informed the tenement of clay
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a savage place as holy and enchanted as e'er beneath a wailing moon was haunted by woman wailing for her demon-lover
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dragons of the prime that tare each other in their slime were mellow music match'd with him
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like scipio buried by the upbraiding shore thy factions in their worse than civil war proscribed etc
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and the crown which petrarch's laureate brow supremely wore upon a far and foreign soil had grown
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pigmalion quanto lodar ti dei dell' immagine tua se mille volte n' avesti quel ch' i' sol una vorrei
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hic silvestris erat romani nominis altrix uberibus gravidis vitali rore rigabat concidit atque avulsa pedum vestigia liquit
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o let us be married too long we have tarried but what shall we do for a ring
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'kah kah ' said the dwarf 'is it crying you're at
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'cry shoo now cry shoo thou fierce grey wolf fly now
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cry shoo now cry shoo but his fangs were so cruel
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saith 'peace peace ' amid his foam
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if in the month of dark december leander who was nightly wont to cross thy stream broad hellespont
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sequestered shades where piety has given a quiet refuge from each earthly care whence the rapt spirit may ascend to heaven
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to bear forgiving and forgiven on earth thy love was such to me it fain would form my hope in heaven
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'and oft i thought at cynthia's noon now thyrza gazes on that moon alas it gleam'd upon her grave
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if judging from my present pain that rest alone if rest alone is in the tomb
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but night and day of thine are passed and thou wert lovely to the last destroyed
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and he who in the cause expires will add a name and fate to them well worthy of his noble stem
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'twas but an instant though so long when thus dilated in my song 'twas but an instant
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and welcome life though but in one for many a gilded chamber's there unmeet for solitude to share
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behold as turns him from the wall his cowl flies back his tresses fall that pallid aspect wreathing round
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but this grief in truth is not for thy relief my state thy thought can never guess
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oh wild as the accents of lovers' farewell are the hearts which they bear and the tales which they tell
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i've partisans for peril's day think not i am what i appear i've arms and friends and vengeance near
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but were it not that high command spake in his eye and tone and hand all that a careless eye could see
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if not thy sister would'st thou save my life oh bid me be thy slave
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but first beloved zuleika hear how giaffir wrought this deed of fear
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oh could you view the melody of ev'ry grace and music of her face
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my breast is consciousness of sin but when and where and what the crime i almost feel is lurking here
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that slave who saw my spirit pining beneath inaction's heavy yoke compassionate his charge resigning
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since fatal was the gaze he took for her his eye but sought in vain sad proof etc
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nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria
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when hand grasps hand uniting on the beach the smile the question and the quick reply and the heart's promise of festivity
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oh fate accuse thy folly not thy fate she may redeem thee still nor yet too late
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he had the skill when prying souls would seek to watch his words and trace his pensive cheek his was the skill when prying etc
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behold his soul once seen not soon forgot all that there burns its hour away but sears the scathed remembrance of long coming years
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now to francesca now to ginevra now to medora
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he hears a step draw near in beauty's pride a female comes wide floats her glistening gown her hand sustains a lamp
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