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zar
shall know from me of aught but what may honour
their father's memory | img2poems |
zar
perhaps too natural for benefits
turn poison in bad minds | img2poems |
zar
the honey nor inquire whence 'tis derived
be satisfied you are not all abandoned | img2poems |
zar
so gentle with me that i cannot think
of quitting | img2poems |
sal
nay then i must use some fraternal force
which you will pardon | img2poems |
myr
far off a voice of wail and lamentation
and thought | img2poems |
sar
before your entrance in this hall zarina
queen of assyria departed hence | img2poems |
sar
now to reproof: methinks your aspect speaks
of higher matter than a woman's presence | img2poems |
myr
had earthly monarch half the power and glory
which centres in a single ray of his | img2poems |
myr
beat back by valour: now at once we have
courage and vigilance to guard us | img2poems |
bal
in the late action scarcely more appalled
the rebels than astonished his true subjects | img2poems |
myr
receive a token from your dying brother
appointing zames chief | img2poems |
myr
of salemenes not to risk a sally
till ye were strengthened by the expected succours | img2poems |
sar
swear that you will obey when i shall give
the signal | img2poems |
sar
that thou shouldst come and dare to ask of me
to lay it down | img2poems |
her
at the same peril if refused as now
incurred by my obedience | img2poems |
sar
and tell him ere a year expire i summon
him hence to meet me | img2poems |
myr
part to die for his sovereign and why not
the woman's with her lover | img2poems |
pan
with but a single female to partake
his death | img2poems |
myr
dwells thy mind rather upon that man's name
than on his mate's in villany | img2poems |
myr
a greek girl dare not do for love that which
an indian widow braves for custom | img2poems |
and what is there
an indian widow dares for custom which
a greek girl | img2poems |
nothing can sympathise with foscari
not even a foscari
sir i attend you | img2poems |
mem
we gain a step in knowledge and i look
forward to be one day of the decemvirs | img2poems |
mar
i will not deem it: he hath nerved himself
and now defies them | img2poems |
sen
even if she be so cannot save her husband
but see the officer returns | img2poems |
mem
thought that the ten had even this touch of pity
or would permit assistance to this sufferer | img2poems |
bar
that were too much: believe me 'twas not meet
the trial should go further at this moment | img2poems |
lor
and the old ducal dotard who combined
the worthy voices which o'er-ruled my own | img2poems |
lor
his state descend to his children as it must
if he die unattainted | img2poems |
doge
of things you know not: but the treaty's signed
return with it to them who sent you | img2poems |
doge
command my time when not commanded by
the state | img2poems |
mar
of him thou canst not or thou wilt not save
you were the last to bear it | img2poems |
lor
that they have power to act at their discretion
with or without the presence of the doge | img2poems |
lor
'tis not for me to anticipate the pleasure
of the tribunal | img2poems |
doge
the deference due even to the lightest word
that falls from those who rule in venice | img2poems |
doge
so far take on myself as order that
you may be admitted | img2poems |
i know if mind may bear us up or no
for i have such and shown it before men
it sinks in solitude: my soul is social | img2poems |
this crowd of palaces and prisons is not
a paradise its first inhabitants
were wretched exiles | img2poems |
mar
it was the lot of millions and must be
the fate of myriads more | img2poems |
lor
in canea afterwards the freedom of
the whole isle | img2poems |
lor
the virtue which this noble lady most
may practise she doth well to recommend it | img2poems |
bar
solicited permission to retire
and twice it was refused | img2poems |
mem
if you obey: and if not you no less
will know why you should have obeyed | img2poems |
mem
but me no buts unless you would pass o'er
the bridge which few repass | img2poems |
mem
if we divulge them doubtless they are worth
something at least to you or me | img2poems |
doge
go and obey our country's will: 'tis not
for us to look beyond | img2poems |
mar
change their hearts or your lot: the galley's oars
will quickly clear the harbour | img2poems |
mar
there must be life yet in that heart he could not
thus leave me | img2poems |
mar
i am no daughter now thou hast no son
oh foscari | img2poems |
bar
but grief is lonely and the breaking in
upon it barbarous | img2poems |
lor
the act was passing it might have suspended
its passage but impedes it not once passed | img2poems |
bar
inter his son before we press upon him
this edict | img2poems |
lor
in early life its foe but in his manhood
its saviour first then victim | img2poems |
offi
to forward the preparatory rites
for the late foscari's interment | img2poems |
chief of the ten
to the alternative of a decree
instead of your compliance | img2poems |
doge
but nothing will advance no not a moment
what you decree decree | img2poems |
doge
against his country had he a thousand lives
instead of that | img2poems |
doge
i feel athirst will no one bring me here
a cup of water | img2poems |
doge
for my own part i credit neither 'tis
an idle legend | img2poems |
bar
the misery to die a subject where
he reigned: then let his funeral rites be princely | img2poems |
bar
what art thou writing
with such an earnest brow upon thy tablets | img2poems |
'a daughter of the house that now among
its ancestors in monumental brass
numbers eight doges | img2poems |
the will itself dependent
upon a storm a straw and both alike
leading to death | img2poems |
eve
the fruit of our forbidden tree begins
to fall | img2poems |
abel
be on your spirit brother
[exeunt abel zillah and adah | img2poems |
lucifer
worthy of thought 'tis your immortal part
which speaks within you | img2poems |
cain
i thought it was a being: who could do
such evil things to beings save a being | img2poems |
cain
that were no evil: would i ne'er had been
aught else but dust | img2poems |
lucifer
thou art my worshipper not worshipping
him makes thee mine the same | img2poems |
cain
but abel's earnest prayer has wrought upon me
the offering is more his than mine and adah | img2poems |
adah
but he is welcome as they were: they deigned
to be our guests will he | img2poems |
lucifer
ask eve your mother: bears she not the knowledge
of good and evil | img2poems |
adah
the seraphs love most cherubim know most
and this should be a cherub since he loves not | img2poems |
cain
i will have nought to do with happiness
which humbles me and mine | img2poems |
adah
saith that he has beheld the god himself
who made him and our mother | img2poems |
lucifer
whence he shall come back to thee in an hour
but in that hour see things of many days | img2poems |
lucifer
so humbly in their pride as to sojourn
with worms in clay | img2poems |
lucifer
and therefore do i ask of thee if thou
wouldst be immortal | img2poems |
lucifer
the phantasm of the world of which thy world
is but the wreck | img2poems |
but changes make not death except to clay
but thou art clay and canst but comprehend
that which was clay and such thou shall behold | img2poems |
cain
and some till now grew larger as we approached
and wore the look of worlds | img2poems |
lucifer
the curse is mutual 'twixt thy sire and thee
but for thy sons and brother | img2poems |
cain
it is too little and too lowly to
sustain such creatures | img2poems |
lucifer
but canst not comprehend the shadow of
that which it was | img2poems |
lucifer
the mammoth is in thy world but these lie
by myriads underneath its surface | img2poems |
lucifer
with them would render the curse on it useless
'twould be destroyed so early | img2poems |
lucifer
a state and many states beyond thine own
and this thou knewest not this morn | img2poems |
cain
distance can but diminish glory they
when nearer must be more ineffable | img2poems |
behold my son
said adam how from evil
springs good | img2poems |
lucifer
who shared thy mother's milk and giveth hers
unto thy children | img2poems |
lucifer
what thy remoter offspring must encounter
but bask beneath the clime which knows no winter | img2poems |
cain
what makes my feelings more endurable
and is more than myself because i love it | img2poems |
cain
her favour since the serpent was the first
to win it | img2poems |
lucifer
sufficiently to see they love your brother
his sacrifices are acceptable | img2poems |
cain
his creatures as thou say'st we are or show me
thy dwelling or his dwelling | img2poems |
lucifer
both but the time will come thou shalt see one
of them for evermore | img2poems |
cain
thou speak'st it proudly but thyself though proud
hast a superior | img2poems |
adah
shut out the sun like night and therefore seemed
fitting to shadow slumber | img2poems |
adah
two hours since ye departed: two long hours
to me but only hours upon the sun | img2poems |
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