When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing,
And flies with every changing gale of spring.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane.
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy...
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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures
without making a mistake.
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They never fail who die
In a great cause.
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and
true religion.
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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
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The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
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But these are foolish things to all the wise,
And I love wisdom more than she loves me;
My ten...
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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity,"
Most modern preachers say the same, or show it
By thei...
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And both were young, and one was beautiful.
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Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another...
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The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
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These two hated with a hate
Found only on the stage.
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Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.
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His heart was one of those which most enamour us,
Wax to receive, and marble to retain.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and
the life he leads?
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There comes
For ever something between us and what
We deem our happiness.
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. . . all who joy would win
Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.
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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water!
Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
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O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises,
'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phras...
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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some liken it...
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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In friendship I early was taught to believe;
. . . .
I have found that a friend may profess, y...
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.
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Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun
The many still must labour for the one.
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The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at l...
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There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
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An infant when it gazes on a light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee wh...
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And gazed around them to the left and right
With the prophetic eye of appetite.
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Around his form his loose long robe was thrown,
And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone.
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Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.
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She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For which small...
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And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
For when they happen at a riper age,
People are apt...
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
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A mere court butterfly,
That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.
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Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No,"
And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing
...
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Like a lovely tree
She grew to womanhood, and between whiles
Rejected several suitors, just to...
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And nearer as they came, a genial savour
Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.
Things...
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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine,
And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.
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I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
High mountains are a f...
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I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse--borne away with every breath.
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Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men.
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And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils...
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Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
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The truly brave,
When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
Are touched with a desire to ...
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the
surface and their toughness in the m...
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Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
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On the ear
Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.
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'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so
fast,
But the tender bloom of he...
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Blushed like the waves of hell.
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So sweet the blush of bashfulness,
E'en pity scarce can wish it less!
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That all-softening, overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell.
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Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms,
And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,
To h...
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How lovely he appears! his little cheeks
In their pure incarnation, vying with
The rose leave...
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He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on
And smile, thou little, young inheritor
Of a world scarce les...
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The mellow autumn came, and with it came
The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.
The corn is ...
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Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength,
And ponder well your subject, and its length;
...
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And hold up to the sun my little taper.
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But every fool describes, in these bright days,
His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
An...
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That...
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Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone-...
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I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with
comprehension.
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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter."
And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.
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'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch,
For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.
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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore,
All ashes to the taste.
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Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow
Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;
Her e...
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Thou who hast
The fatal gist of beauty.
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The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The heart...
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And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
Th...
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures;
And all are to be sold, if you consider
Their p...
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There were his young barbarians all at play
There was their Dacian mother--he, their sire,
But...
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A thirst for gold,
The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm
The meanest hearts.
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Such parting break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
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We two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years.
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Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.
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Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,
T...
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Let's not unman each other--part at once;
All farewells should be sudden, when forever,
Else t...
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Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
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Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume,
Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her ...
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Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to...
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Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
Not what you seem but always what you see.
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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant
Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn
Loud as the virtu...
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The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
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A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure--critics all are ready made.
Take hackne...
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"Not to admire, is all the art I know
(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)
...
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Put himself upon his good behavior.
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By all that's good and glorious.
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There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
He deals on his own soul.
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene!
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
That...
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is so...
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Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.
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"Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir,
And sighs for sables which he must not wear.
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Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear
Th...
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In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in ...
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.
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And angling too, that solitary vice,
What Izaak Walton sings or says:
The quaint, old, cruel c...
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And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, li...
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Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,
Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
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Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man...
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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in,
Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.
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The image of Eternity--the throne
Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of th...
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Think not I am what I appear.
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From the mingled strength of shade and light
A new creation rises to my sight,
Such heav'nly f...
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The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful!
I linge...
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For the night
Shows stars and women in a better light.
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Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!
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Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth;
If you had been in Turkey or...
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To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
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'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue
By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,
Whe...
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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,
I...
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Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad,
Because it makes us smile.
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But owned that smile, if oft observed and near,
Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.
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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
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And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
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This is the way that physicians mend or end us,
Secundum artem: but although we sneer
In healt...
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Such is the aspect of this shore;
'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so ...
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As soon
Seek roses in December--ice in June,
Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;
...
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Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
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As the lone Angler, patient man,
At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,
Leaves off, against his placid ...
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What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?
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Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That know...
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He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;--
In short, there never was a better hearer.
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Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
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I love the language, that soft bastard Latin,
Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.
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Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The loveliest things that st...
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May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill,
And tailors' lays be longer than their bill!
While ...
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I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.
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Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.
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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that
Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--
The w...
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And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.
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That each pull'd different ways with many an oath,
"Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.
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Hark! to the hurried question of Despair
"Where is my child?"--An echo answers--
"Where?"
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So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
V...
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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.
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And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth,
And that was shining on him.
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And her face so fair
Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.
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Yet even her tyranny had such a grace,
The women pardoned all, except her face.
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A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.
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Come, lay thy head upon my breast,
And I will kiss thee into rest.
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When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--
For years fleet away with the wings of th...
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A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,
A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,
Condemn'd to dr...
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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
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Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell!
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In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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"Farewell!"
For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er
We promise--hope--believe--there breath...
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Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh, give me back my heart!
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A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust.
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As good as a play.
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Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime.
In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;
Mad wag...
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade.
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I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies!
If captains the remark, or critics, make,
Why they lie al...
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
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She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;
And all that's best o...
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A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
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Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His chang...
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Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
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Ah! were I sever'd from thy side,
Where were thy friend and who my guide?
Years have not seen...
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The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;
...
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No Sane man will dance.
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Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine
(Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),
Long be...
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Hot from the hands promiscuously applied,
Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.
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Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune
Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.
Scotch reels, a...
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And then he danced;--all foreigners excel
The serious Angles in the eloquence
Of pantomime;--h...
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A thousand hearts beat happily; and when
Music arose with its voluptuous swell,
Soft eyes look...
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On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.
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Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
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There was a sound of revelry by night,
And Belgium's capital had gather'd then
Her Beauty and ...
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The music, and the banquet, and the wine--
The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers,
The ...
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A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than
of expense.
[Lat., Non ampliter, ...
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Not fewer than three nor more than nine.
[Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.]
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It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour when ...
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Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;
Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?
If s...
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Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?
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And be the Spartan's epitaph on me--
"Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."
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The castled crag of Drachenfels,
Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine,
Whose breast of water...
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"Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
As some one somewhere sings about the sky.
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And they were canopied by the blue sky,
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
That God al...
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The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation,
And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;
In fa...
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The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice,
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
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The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed!
I sh...
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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
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There is a temple in ruins stands,
Fashion'd by long forgotten hands:
Two or three columns, an...
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O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
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When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls--the World.
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Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious queen of childish joys,
Who lead'st along, in air...
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Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one ...
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'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep
From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high
Th...
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Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honour'd race.
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I die,--but first I have possess'd,
And come what may, I have been bless'd.
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Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him,
Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,
Catull...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
LORD BYRON GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.
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I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ... 
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I... 
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt... 
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O... 
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace. 
But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane. 
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy... 
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and
true religion.