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Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's Poetical Works is based on that of 'The Works of Lord Byron', in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. T
- 638 Be unimpeded by the proudest mosque.LXIV."So now, my lads, for Glory!"--Here he turned And drilled away in the most cla.s.sic Russian, Until each high heroic bosom burned For cash and conquest, as if from a cus.h.i.+on A preacher had held forth
- 637 (Or _beaten_, if you insist on grammar, though I never think about it in a heat,) But here I say the Turks were much mistaken, Who hating hogs, yet wished to save their bacon.XLIII.For, on the sixteenth, at full gallop, drew In sight two hors.e.m.e.n, who
- 636 XXII.Then there were Frenchmen, gallant, young, and gay; But I'm too great a patriot to record Their Gallic names upon a glorious day; I'd rather tell ten lies than say a word Of truth;--such truths are treason; they betray Their country; and as
- 635 III.They accuse me--_Me_--the present writer of The present poem--of--I know not what--A tendency to under-rate and scoff At human power and virtue, and all that;[365]And this they say in language rather rough.Good G.o.d! I wonder what they would be at!I
- 634 {277}[342] The ladies of the Seraglio.[343] [Demetrius Cantemir, hospodar of Moldavia. His work, the _History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire_, was translated into English by N. Tyndal, 1734. He died in 1723.][344] [Baron de Tott, in his _Mem
- 633 CXX.I leave them for the present with good wishes, Though doubts of their well doing, to arrange Another part of History; for the dishes Of this our banquet we must sometimes change; And trusting Juan may escape the fishes, (Although his situation now see
- 632 But as it was, his Highness had to hold His daily council upon ways and means How to encounter with this martial scold, This modern Amazon and Queen of queans; And the perplexity could not be told Of all the pillars of the State, which leans Sometimes a l
- 631 Could not at first expound what was amiss.LXXV.At length she said, that in a slumber sound She dreamed a dream, of walking in a wood-- A "wood obscure," like that where Dante found[354]Himself in at the age when all grow good;[gz]Life's hal
- 630 LIII.But she was a soft landscape of mild earth, Where all was harmony, and calm, and quiet, Luxuriant, budding; cheerful without mirth, Which, if not happiness, is much more nigh it Than are your mighty pa.s.sions and so forth, Which, some call "the
- 629 x.x.xI.Whether she was a "Mother," I know not, Or whether they were "Maids" who called her Mother; But this is her Seraglio t.i.tle, got I know not how, but good as any other; So Cantemir[343] can tell you, or De Tott:[344]Her office w
- 628 Are apt to carry things with a high hand, And take, what Kings call "an imposing att.i.tude;"And for their rights connubial make a stand, When their liege husbands treat them with ingrat.i.tude; And as four wives must have quadruple claims, The
- 627 PREFACE TO CANTOS VI., VII., AND VIII.THE details of the siege of Ismail in two of the following cantos (_i.e._ the seventh and eighth) are taken from a French Work, ent.i.tled _Histoire de la Nouvelle Russie._[319] Some of the incidents attributed to Don
- 626 {250}[fk] _The very women half forgave her face_.--[MS, Erased.][fl] _Had his instructions--where and how to deal_.--[MS.][fm] _And husbands now and then are mystified_.--[MS.]{251}[306] [Narrow javelins, once known as archegays--the a.s.segais of Zulu wa
- 625 "In marble-paved pavilion, where a spring Of living water from the centre rose, Whose bubbling did a genial freshness fling, And soft voluptuous couches breathed repose, Ali reclined, a man of war and woes," etc.][288] [A reminiscence of Newstea
- 624 Her comrades, also, thought themselves undone: Oh! Mahomet! that his Majesty should take Such notice of a giaour, while scarce to one Of them his lips imperial ever spake!There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle, But etiquette forbade them all to gi
- 623 Cx.x.xVI.A vulgar tempest 't were to a typhoon To match a common fury with her rage, And yet she did not want to reach the moon,[309]Like moderate Hotspur on the immortal page;[fr]Her anger pitched into a lower tune, Perhaps the fault of her soft s.e
- 622 CXV.His youth and features favoured the disguise, And should you ask how she, a Sultan's bride, Could risk or compa.s.s such strange phantasies, This I must leave sultanas to decide: Emperors are only husbands in wives' eyes, And kings and conso
- 621 Before they entered, Baba paused to hint To Juan some slight lessons as his guide: "If you could just contrive," he said, "to stint That somewhat manly majesty of stride, 'T would be as well, and--(though there's not much in '
- 620 LXXII."Cut off a thousand heads, before----"--"Now, pray,"Replied the other, "do not interrupt: You put me out in what I had to say.Sir!--as I said, as soon as I have supped, I shall perpend if your proposal may Be such as I can p
- 619 Of the best feelings of mankind, which grow More tender, as we every day behold, Than that all-softening, overpowering knell, The Tocsin of the Soul--the dinner-bell.L.Turkey contains no bells, and yet men dine; And Juan and his friend, albeit they heard
- 618 At last they settled into simple grumbling, And pulling out reluctant purses, and Turning each piece of silver o'er, and tumbling Some down, and weighing others in their hand, And by mistake sequins[276] with paras jumbling, Until the sum was accurat
- 617 IX.Were things to shake a Stoic; ne'ertheless, Upon the whole his carriage was serene: His figure, and the splendour of his dress, Of which some gilded remnants still were seen, Drew all eyes on him, giving them to guess He was above the vulgar by hi
- 616 [ej] _Protects his tomb, but greater care is paid_.--[MS.]{213}[ek]_With human ordure is it now defiled_, _As if the peasant's scorn this mode invented_ _To show his loathing of the thing he soiled_.--[MS.][el] _Those sufferings once reserved for h.e
- 615 [dv]_Beauty and Pa.s.sion were the natural dower_ _Of Haidee's mother, but her climate's force_ _Lay at her heart, though sleeping at the source_.or, _But in her large eye lay deep Pa.s.sion's force_, _Like to a lion sleeping by a source_.o
- 614 But for the destiny of this young troop, How some were bought by Pachas, some by Jews, How some to burdens were obliged to stoop, And others rose to the command of crews As renegadoes; while in hapless group, Hoping no very old Vizier might choose, The fe
- 613 No matter; we should ne'er too much inquire, But facts are facts: no Knight could be more true, And firmer faith no Ladye-love desire; We will omit the proofs, save one or two: 'T is said no one in hand "can hold a fire By thought of frosty
- 612 LXXIII.But many a Greek maid in a loving song Sighs o'er her name; and many an islander With her Sire's story makes the night less long; Valour was his, and Beauty dwelt with her: If she loved rashly, her life paid for wrong-- A heavy price must
- 611 The world is full of strange vicissitudes, And here was one exceedingly unpleasant: A gentleman so rich in the world's goods, Handsome and young, enjoying all the present,[dt]Just at the very time when he least broods On such a thing, is suddenly to
- 610 XXIX.Now pillowed cheek to cheek, in loving sleep, Haidee and Juan their siesta took, A gentle slumber, but it was not deep, For ever and anon a something shook Juan, and shuddering o'er his frame would creep; And Haidee's sweet lips murmured li
- 609 VII.How I have treated it, I do not know; Perhaps no better than _they_ have treated me, Who have imputed such designs as show Not what they saw, but what they wished to see: But if it gives them pleasure, be it so; This is a liberal age, and thoughts are
- 608 [221] [In his "Essay, Supplementary to the Preface," to his "Poems" of 1815, Wordsworth, commenting on a pa.s.sage on Night in Dryden's _Indian Emperor_, says, "Dryden's lines are vague, bombastic, and senseless....The v
- 607 {168}[193] [_Vide St. August. Epist._, x.x.xvi., cap. xiv., "Ille [Ambrosius, Mediolanensis Episcopus] adjecit; Quando hic sum, non jejuno sabbato; quando Romae sum, jejuno sabbato."--Migne's _Patrologiae Cursus_, 1845, x.x.xiii. 151.][cx]
- 606 _Yet for all that don't stay away too long,_ _A sofa, like a bed, may come by wrong_.--[MS.]_I've known the friend betrayed_----.--[MS. D.]{151}[178] [The Pyrrhic war-dance represented "by rapid movements of the body, the way in which missi
- 605 CI.T' our tale.--The feast was over, the slaves gone, The dwarfs and dancing girls had all retired; The Arab lore and Poet's song were done, And every sound of revelry expired; The lady and her lover, left alone, The rosy flood of Twilight'
- 604 We will not think of themes like these!It made Anacreon's song divine: He served--but served Polycrates--[200]A Tyrant; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen.12.The Tyrant of the Chersonese Was Freedom's best and bravest frie
- 603 And now they were diverted by their suite, Dwarfs, dancing girls, black eunuchs, and a poet, Which made their new establishment complete; The last was of great fame, and liked to show it; His verses rarely wanted their due feet-- And for his theme--he sel
- 602 But something of the spirit of old Greece Flashed o'er his soul a few heroic rays, Such as lit onward to the Golden Fleece His predecessors in the Colchian days; 'T is true he had no ardent love for peace-- Alas! his country showed no path to pr
- 601 x.x.xII.A band of children, round a snow-white ram,[180]There wreathe his venerable horns with flowers; While peaceful as if still an unweaned lamb, The patriarch of the flock all gently cowers His sober head, majestically tame, Or eats from out the palm,
- 600 IX.All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith, For authors fear description might disparage The worlds to come of both, or fall beneath, And then both worlds would punish their
- 599 {130}[bv]_For without heart Love is not quite so good_; _Ceres is commissary to our bellies_, _And Love, which also much depends on food_: _While Bacchus will provide with wine and jellies_-- _Oysters and eggs are also living food_.--[MS.][bw]_He was her
- 598 Trifling as such an incident may appear, we all considered it a _propitious omen_."--"Loss of the _Lady Hobart_, 1803," _s.h.i.+pwrecks and Disasters at Sea_, 1812, iii. 389.][140] ["I found it necessary to caution the people against b
- 597 "_The Centaur laboured so much_, that I _could scarce hope she would swim_ till morning: ... our sufferings _for want of water_ were very great...."_The weather again threatened_, and by noon _it blew a storm_. The s.h.i.+p laboured greatly; _th
- 596 But Juan! had he quite forgotten Julia?And should he have forgotten her so soon?I can't but say it seems to me most truly a Perplexing question; but, no doubt, the moon Does these things for us, and whenever newly a Strong palpitation rises, 't
- 595 They gazed upon the glittering sea below, Whence the broad Moon rose circling into sight; They heard the waves' splash, and the wind so low, And saw each other's dark eyes darting light Into each other--and, beholding this, Their lips drew near,
- 594 CLXIV.'T is pleasing to be schooled in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been;[156]They smile so when one's right, and when one'
- 593 CXL.I say, the Sun is a most glorious sight, I've seen him rise full oft, indeed of late I have sat up on purpose all the night,[bn][153]Which hastens, as physicians say, one's fate; And so all ye, who would be in the right In health and purse,
- 592 Her brow was overhung with coins of gold, That sparkled o'er the auburn of her hair-- Her cl.u.s.tering hair, whose longer locks were rolled In braids behind; and though her stature were Even of the highest for a female mould, They nearly reached her
- 591 XCIII.Our s.h.i.+pwrecked seamen thought it a good omen-- It is as well to think so, now and then; 'T was an old custom of the Greek and Roman, And may become of great advantage when Folks are discouraged; and most surely no men Had greater need to n
- 590 On the sixth day they fed upon his hide, And Juan, who had still refused, because The creature was his father's dog that died, Now feeling all the vulture in his jaws, With some remorse received (though first denied) As a great favour one of the fore
- 589 'T was twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown[bf]Of one whose hate is masked but to a.s.sail.Thus to their hopeless eyes the night was shown, And grimly darkled
- 588 XXVII.At one o'clock the wind with sudden s.h.i.+ft Threw the s.h.i.+p right into the trough of the sea, Which struck her aft, and made an awkward rift, Started the stern-post, also shattered the Whole of her stern-frame, and, ere she could lift Hers
- 587 IV.Well--well; the World must turn upon its axis, And all Mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering wind s.h.i.+fts, s.h.i.+ft our sails; The King commands us, and the Doctor quacks us, The Pri
- 586 "As I have no wish to have mysteries, I merely prohibit the _publication_ of these stanzas in _print_, for the reasons of fairness mentioned; but I by no means wish _him not_ to _know_ their existence or their tenor, nor my intentions as to himself:
- 585 [ah] _And reckon up our balance with the devil_.--[MS.]{62}[79] ["Carissimo, do review the whole scene, and think what you would say of it, if written by another."--[H.] "I would say, read 'The Miracle' ['A Tale from Boccace&
- 584 [57]["Oh, Susan! I've said, in the moments of mirth, What's devotion to thee or to me?I devoutly believe there's a heaven on earth, And believe that _that_ heaven's in _thee._""The Catalogue," _Poetical Works of the
- 583 or, _The reason was, perhaps, that he was bilious_.--[MS.][h]/ now but _And we may own--since he is earth_.--[MS.] laid in / [39] ["I could have forgiven the dagger or the bowl,--any thing but the deliberate desolation piled upon me, when I stood al
- 582 [18] ["In the eighth and concluding lecture of Mr. Hazlitt's canons of criticism, delivered at the Surrey Inst.i.tution (_The English Poets_, 1870, pp. 203, 204), I am accused of having 'lauded Buonaparte to the skies in the hour of his suc
- 581 CCIX.The public approbation I expect, And beg they'll take my word about the moral, Which I with their amus.e.m.e.nt will connect (So children cutting teeth receive a coral); Meantime they'll doubtless please to recollect My epical pretensions t
- 580 Lights came at length, and men, and maids, who found An awkward spectacle their eyes before; Antonia in hysterics, Julia swooned, Alfonso leaning, breathless, by the door; Some half-torn drapery scattered on the ground, Some blood, and several footsteps,
- 579 He had been hid--I don't pretend to say How, nor can I indeed describe the where-- Young, slender, and packed easily, he lay, No doubt, in little compa.s.s, round or square; But pity him I neither must nor may His suffocation by that pretty pair; �
- 578 CXLVII."Is it for this I have disdained to hold The common privileges of my s.e.x?That I have chosen a confessor so old And deaf, that any other it would vex, And never once he has had cause to scold, But found my very innocence perplex So much, he a
- 577 CXXVII.But sweeter still than this, than these, than all, Is first and pa.s.sionate Love--it stands alone, Like Adam's recollection of his fall; The Tree of Knowledge has been plucked--all 's known-- And Life yields nothing further to recall Wor
- 576 She sate, but not alone; I know not well How this same interview had taken place, And even if I knew, I should not tell-- People should hold their tongues in any case; No matter how or why the thing befell, But there were she and Juan, face to face-- When
- 575 Lx.x.xIII.Her plan she deemed both innocent and feasible, And, surely, with a stripling of sixteen Not Scandal's fangs could fix on much that's seizable, Or if they did so, satisfied to mean Nothing but what was good, her breast was peaceable--
- 574 However this might be, the race went on Improving still through every generation, Until it centred in an only son, Who left an only daughter; my narration May have suggested that this single one Could be but Julia (whom on this occasion I shall have much
- 573 No choice was left his feelings or his pride, Save Death or Doctors' Commons--so he died.[i]x.x.xVII.Dying intestate, Juan was sole heir To a chancery suit, and messuages, and lands, Which, with a long minority and care, Promised to turn out well in
- 572 XVI.In short, she was a walking calculation, Miss Edgeworth's novels stepping from their covers,[28]Or Mrs. Trimmer's books on education,[29]Or "Coelebs' Wife"[30] set out in quest of lovers, Morality's prim personification,
- 571 "Would _he_ subside into a hackney Laureate-- A scribbling, self-sold, soul-hired, scorned Iscariot?"I doubt if "Laureate" and "Iscariot" be good rhymes, but must say, as Ben Jonson did to Sylvester, who challenged him to rhy
- 570 The Works of Lord Byron.Volume 6.by Lord Byron.PREFACE TO THE SIXTH VOLUME.The text of this edition of _Don Juan_ has been collated with original MSS. in the possession of the Lady Dorchester and Mr. John Murray. The fragment of a Seventeenth Canto, consi
- 569 "But I have sinuous sh.e.l.ls of pearly hue.Shake one and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there."Compare, too, _The Excursion_, bk. iv.-- "I
- 568 [ff] _Thus Argo plunged into the Euxine's foam_.--[MS. D, erased.][368] {598} The first three sections are taken from an actual song of the Tonga Islanders, of which a prose translation is given in "Mariner's Account of the Tonga Islands.&q
- 567 With, though a hostile hand, to close his eye.A limb was broken, and he drooped along The crag, as doth a falcon reft of young.[fu]The sound revived him, or appeared to wake Some pa.s.sion which a weakly gesture spake: 330 He beckoned to the foremost, who
- 566 White as a white sail on a dusky sea, When half the horizon's clouded and half free, Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky, Is Hope's last gleam in Man's extremity.Her anchor parts; but still her snowy sail Attracts our eye amidst the
- 565 "What cheer, Ben Bunting?" cried (when in full view 500 Our new acquaintance) Torquil. "Aught of new?""Ey, ey!" quoth Ben, "not new, but news enow; A strange sail in the offing."--"Sail! and how?What! could you
- 564 By Neuha's side he sate, and watched the waters,-- Neuha, the sun-flower of the island daughters, Highborn, (a birth at which the herald smiles, Without a scutcheon for these secret isles,) Of a long race, the valiant and the free, The naked knights
- 563 We leave them to their fate, but not unknown Nor unredressed. Revenge may have her own:[fd]Roused Discipline aloud proclaims their cause, And injured Navies urge their broken laws.Pursue we on his track the mutineer, Whom distant vengeance had not taught
- 562 ADVERTIs.e.m.e.nT.The foundation of the following story will be found partly in Lieutenant Bligh's "Narrative of the Mutiny and Seizure of the Bounty, in the South Seas (in 1789);" and partly in "Mariner's Account of the Tonga Isl
- 561 [339] [Alcina, the personification of carnal pleasure in the _Orlando Furioso_, is the counterpart of Homer's _Circe_. "She enjoyed her lovers for a time, and then changed them into trees, stones, fountains, or beasts, as her fancy dictated.&quo
- 560 [315] ["In the amphitheatre ... crowds collected after the sittings of the Congress, to witness dramatic representations.... But for the costumes, a spectator might have imagined he was witnessing a resurrection of the ancient Romans."--_Congres
- 559 [294] {554} I refer the reader to the first address of Prometheus in aeschylus, when he is left alone by his attendants, and before the arrival of the chorus of Sea-nymphs.--_Prometheus Vinctus_, line 88, _sq._ [295] [Franklin published his _Opinions and
- 558 [261] {544}[In a speech delivered in the House of Commons, February 17, 1800, "On the continuance of the War with France," Pitt described Napoleon as the "child and champion of Jacobinism." Coleridge, who was reporting for the _Morning
- 557 Shorn of her bishops, banks, and dividends, Another Babel soars--but Britain ends.And why? to pamper the self-seeking wants, 650 And prop the hill of these agrarian ants."Go to these ants, thou sluggard, and be wise;"Admire their patience throug
- 556 Resplendent sight! Behold the c.o.xcomb Czar,[316]The Autocrat of waltzes[317] and of war!As eager for a plaudit as a realm, And just as fit for flirting as the helm; A Calmuck beauty with a Cossack wit, And generous spirit, when 'tis not frost-bit;
- 555 IV.How, if that soaring Spirit still retain A conscious twilight of his blazing reign, 90 How must he smile, on looking down, to see The little that he was and sought to be!What though his Name a wider empire found Than his Ambition, though with scarce a
- 554 THE AGE OF BRONZE; OR, CARMEN SECULARE ET ANNUS HAUD MIRABILIS.[dv]"Impar _Congressus_ Achilli."[253]INTRODUCTION TO _THE AGE OF BRONZE_._The Age of Bronze_ was begun in December, 1822, and finished on January 10, 1823. "I have sent,"
- 553 [df] _We'll add a "Count" to it_.--[MS.][dg] {498} ----_my eyes are full_.--[MS.][230] [Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Montpensier et de la Marche, Dauphin d'Auvergne, was born February 17, 1490. He served in Italy with Bayard, and helpe
- 552 [203] [Mrs. Sh.e.l.ley inscribed the following note on the fly-leaf of her copy of _The Deformed Transformed_:-- "This had long been a favourite subject with Lord Byron. I think that he mentioned it also in Switzerland. I copied it--he sending a port
- 551 _Caesar_. It is The land of Song--and Canticles you know Were once my avocation._Arn._ Nothing moves you; You scoff even at your own calamity-- And such calamity! how wert thou fallen 20 Son of the Morning! and yet Lucifer Can smile._Caes._ His shape can-
- 550 _Arn._ But doth she live indeed?_Caes._ Nay, never fear!But, if you rue it after, blame not me._Arn._ Let her but live!_Caes._ The Spirit of her life Is yet within her breast, and may revive.Count! count! I am your servant in all things, And this is a new
- 549 _Soldiers_. Mercy! mercy!_Arn._ Then learn to grant it. Have I taught you _who_ Led you o'er Rome's eternal battlements?_Soldiers_. We saw it, and we know it; yet forgive A moment's error in the heat of conquest-- The conquest which you led
- 548 _Caes._ And that's the reason: would you make a quarrel With your best friends? You had far best be quiet; His hour is not yet come._Luth. Sold._ That shall be seen![_The Lutheran Soldier rushes forward: a shot strikes him from one of the Pope's
- 547 _Arn._ Away! they must not rally._Caes._ I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge Is for a flying enemy. I gave thee A form of beauty, and an Exemption from some maladies of body, But not of mind, which is not mine to give.But though I gave the form of T
- 546 _Bourb._ Hold, Arnold! I am first._Arn._ Not so, my Lord._Bourb._ Hold, sir, I charge you! Follow! I am proud Of such a follower, but will brook no leader.[BOURBON _plants his ladder, and begins to mount_.Now, boys! On! on![_A shot strikes him, and_ BOURB
- 545 _Caes._ And mine?_Bourb._ To follow glory with the Bourbon.Good night!_Arn._ (_to_ CaeSAR). Prepare our armour for the a.s.sault, And wait within my tent.[_Exeunt_ BOURBON, ARNOLD, PHILIBERT, _etc._ _Caes._ (_solus_). Within thy tent! 310 Think'st th
- 544 In such an enterprise to die is rather The dawn of an eternal day, than death.[_Count_ ARNOLD _and_ CaeSAR _advance_._Caes._ And the mere men--do they, too, sweat beneath The noon of this same ever-scorching glory?_Bourb._ Ah!Welcome the bitter Hunchback!
- 543 _Caes._ I saw him._Arn._ You!_Caes._ Yes, Sir! You forget I am or was Spirit, till I took up with your cast shape, And a worse name. I'm Caesar and a hunch-back Now. Well! the first of Caesars was a bald-head, And loved his laurels better as a wig (S
- 542 _Stran._ Why not? The deeper sinner, better saint._Arn._ They are beautiful, and cannot, sure, be demons._Stran._ True; the devil's always ugly: and your beauty Is never diabolical._Arn._ I'll call him Who bears the golden horn, and wears such b
- 541 [ARNOLD _falls senseless; his soul pa.s.ses into the shape of Achilles, which rises from the ground; while the phantom has disappeared, part by part, as the figure was formed from the earth_._Arn._ (_in his new form_). I love, and I shall be beloved! Oh,
- 540 _Stran._ Since so far 240 You seem congenial, will you wear his features?_Arn._ No. As you leave me choice, I am difficult.If but to see the heroes I should ne'er Have seen else, on this side of the dim sh.o.r.e, Whence they float back before us._Str
- 539 _Arn._ No; I will not.I must not compromise my soul._Stran._ What soul, Worth naming so, would dwell in such a carcase?_Arn._ 'Tis an aspiring one, whate'er the tenement In which it is mislodged. But name your compact: Must it be signed in blood