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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present
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
- 238 Murray's possession. At the end of July, and during the first half of August, two or more issues of a third edition were set up in type. The first issue amounted to 53 pages, containing 950 lines, was certainly published in this form, and possibly a
- 237 [47] [See Dryden's _Cymon and Iphigenia_, lines 84, 85.][48] [The sequel of a temporary liaison formed by Lord Byron during his career in London, occasioned this impromptu. On the cessation of the connection, the fair one [Lady C. Lamb: see _Letters_
- 236 [bk] {45} _Sympathetic Address to a Young Lady_.--[_Morning Chronicle_, March 7, 1812.][35] [The scene which begat these memorable stanzas was enacted at a banquet at Carlton House, February 22, 1812. On March 6 the following quatrain, ent.i.tled, "I
- 235 [ac] {35} _Stanzas_.--[MS. Editions 1812-1832.][31] ["I wrote it a day or two ago, on hearing a song of former days."--Letter to Hodgson, December 8, 1811, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 82.][ad] _I dare not hear_----.--[MS. erased.][ae] _But hush the cho
- 234 [q] {24} _Oh! what can tongue or pen avail_ _Unless my heart could speak_.--[MS. M.][19] [These lines, which are undoubtedly genuine, were published for the first time in the sixth edition of _Poems on his Domestic Circ.u.mstances_ (W. Hone, 1816). They w
- 233 [a] {1} _For thou hast never lived to see_.--[MS. M. erased.][b] {2} _The Saxon maids_----.--[MS. M.][2] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanza lviii. lines 8, 9, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 59, note 1.][3] {3} [For "Bolero," see _Poetical Wo
- 232 7.Far may thy days, as heretofore,[cc]From this our gaudy world be past!And that too bitter moment o'er, Oh! may such trial be thy last.8.This heart, alas! perverted long, Itself destroyed might there destroy; To meet thee in the glittering throng, W
- 231 My wounded soul, my bleeding breast, Can patience preach thee into rest?Alas! too late, I dearly know That Joy is harbinger of Woe.[First published, _Childe Harold_, 1814 (Seventh Edition).]THOU ART NOT FALSE, BUT THOU ART FICKLE.[bu][50]1.Thou art not fa
- 230 "When in your fostering beams you bid us live,"My next subscription list shall say how much you give![First published, _Morning Chronicle_, October 23, 1812.]VERSES FOUND IN A SUMMER-HOUSE AT HALES-OWEN.[46]When Dryden's fool, "unknowi
- 229 When thou wert changed, they altered too; The chain is broke, the music mute, 'Tis past--to them and thee adieu-- False heart, frail chain, and silent lute.[MS. M. First published, _Corsair_, 1814 (Second Edition).]LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF _T
- 228 6.I know not if I could have borne[bf]To see thy beauties fade; The night that followed such a morn Had worn a deeper shade: Thy day without a cloud hath pa.s.sed,[bg]And thou wert lovely to the last; Extinguished, not decayed; As stars that shoot along t
- 227 My Thyrza's pledge in better days,[ap]When Love and Life alike were new!How different now thou meet'st my gaze!How tinged by time with Sorrow's hue!The heart that gave itself with thee Is silent--ah, were mine as still!Though cold as e'
- 226 [First published, _Life_, 1830.]TO THYRZA.[t][29]Without a stone to mark the spot,[30]And say, what Truth might well have said,[u]By all, save one, perchance forgot, Ah! wherefore art thou lowly laid?By many a sh.o.r.e and many a sea[v]Divided, yet belove
- 225 4.Nor need I write--to tell the tale My pen were doubly weak: Oh! what can idle words avail,[q]Unless the heart could speak?5.By day or night, in weal or woe, That heart, no longer free, Must bear the love it cannot show, And silent ache for thee._March_,
- 224 2.And deep embosomed in his shady groves Full many a convent rears its glittering spire, Mid scenes where Heavenly Contemplation loves To kindle in her soul her hallowed fire, Where air and sea with rocks and woods conspire To breathe a sweet religious ca
- 223 Though Fate forbids such things to be,[l]Yet, by thine eyes and ringlets curled!I cannot _lose_ a _world_ for thee, But would not lose _thee_ for a _World_.[6]_November_ 14, 1809.[MS. M. First published, _Childe Harold_, 1812 (4to).]THE SPELL IS BROKE, TH
- 222 Our guides are gone, our hope is lost, And lightnings, as they play, But show where rocks our path have crost, Or gild the torrent's spray.3.Is yon a cot I saw, though low?When lightning broke the gloom-- How welcome were its shade!--ah, no!'Tis
- 221 The Works Of Lord Byron.Vol. 3.by Lord Byron.NOTES This etext contains characters from the Latin-1 set plus the following symbols from Unicode: the Greek alphabet and the letters a, i, and c (a and i with macron, c with accent). The work contains phrases
- 220 [668] "Fortunae; hujusce diei." Cicero mentions her, _De Legib._, lib. ii. [669] DEae. NEMESI SIVE. FORTV Nae PISTORIVS RVGIANVS V.C. LEGAT. LEG. XIII. G. GORD. (See _Questiones Romanae, etc._, ap. Graev., _Antiq. Roman._, v. 942. See also Murat
- 219 [628] _Storia delle Arti, etc._, lib. xi. cap. i.[629] Sueton., in _Vit. August._, cap. x.x.xi., and in _Vit. C. J. Caesar_, cap. lx.x.xviii. Appian says it was burnt down. See a note of Pitiscus to Suetonius, p. 224.[630] "Tu modo Pompeia lentus spa
- 218 [589] "Appa.s.sionato ammiratore ed invitto apologista dell' _Omero Ferrarese_." The t.i.tle was first given by Ta.s.so, and is quoted to the confusion of the _Ta.s.sisti_, lib. iii. pp. 262, 265. _La Vita di M. L.Ariosto, etc_.[590]"P
- 217 Upon the blue Symplegades.Stanza clxxvi. line 1.[Lord Byron embarked from "Calpe's rock" (Gibraltar) August 19, 1809, and after travelling through Greece, he reached Constantinople in the _Salsette_ frigate May 14, 1810. The two island rock
- 216 But we must not be so much dazzled with his surpa.s.sing glory, or with his magnanimous, his amiable qualities, as to forget the decision of his impartial countrymen:-- HE WAS JUSTLY SLAIN.[653]27.Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal
- 215 Stanza lvii. lines 2, 3, and 4.The elder Scipio Africa.n.u.s had a tomb if he was not buried at Liternum, whither he had retired to voluntary banishment. This tomb was near the sea-sh.o.r.e, and the story of an inscription upon it, _Ingrata Patria_, havin
- 214 Every footstep of Laura's lover has been anxiously traced and recorded.The house in which he lodged is shown in Venice. The inhabitants of Arezzo, in order to decide the ancient controversy between their city and the neighbouring Ancisa, where Petrar
- 213 "This vocal performance sounds best at a great distance, and is then inexpressibly charming, as it only fulfills its design in the sentiment of remoteness. It is plaintive, but not dismal in its sound, and at times it is scarcely possible to refrain
- 212 "Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him."][552] ["While at Aberdeen, he used often to steal from home unperceived; sometimes he would find his way to the seaside" (_Life_, p.
- 211 Not a line of these lamentable effusions has survived; but the poor, pitiful story of common misfortune, with its tragic irony, uncommon circ.u.mstance, and far-reaching consequence, found its _vates sacer_ in the author of _Childe Harold_.][pz] {451} _He
- 210 [Hadrian's mole or mausoleum, now the Castle of St. Angelo, is situated on the banks of the Tiber, on the site of the "Horti Neronis." "It is composed of a square bas.e.m.e.nt, each side of which measures 247 feet....A grand circular m
- 209 [508] {425} [When Byron visited Rome, and for long afterwards, the ruins of the Colosseum were clad with a mult.i.tude of shrubs and wild flowers.Books were written on the "Flora of the Coliseum," which were said to number 420 species. But, says
- 208 [490] {412} [The archaeologists of Byron's day were unable to fix the exact site of the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline."On which side," asks Hobhouse (_Hist. Ill.u.s.t._, p. 224), "stood the citadel, on what the gr
- 207 [475] [Compare _As You Like It_, act ii. sc. 7, lines 26-28-- "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."][nx] {400} _For such existence is as much to die_.--[MS. M. erase
- 206 _Dares not ascend the summit_---- or, _Clothes a more rocky summit_----.--[MS. M. erased.][454] In the greater part of Switzerland, the avalanches are known by the name of lauwine.[Byron is again at fault with his German. "Lawine" (see Schiller,
- 205 1650), a.s.signs the outrage to a party of Venetians who "broke open Petrarch's tomb, in 1630, and took away some of his bones, probably with the object of selling them." Hobhouse, in _note_ ix., says, "that one of the arms was stolen
- 204 [422] {362} The celebrated letter of Servius Sulpicius to Cicero, on the death of his daughter, describes as it then was, and now is, a path which I often traced in Greece, both by sea and land, in different journeys and voyages. "On my return from A
- 203 [407] {348} ["Friuli's mountains" are the Julian Alps, which lie to the north of Trieste and north-east of Venice, "the h.o.a.r and aery Alps towards the north," which Julian and Count Maddalo (_vide post_, p. 349) saw from the Li
- 202 ----_empire's all-conquering foe_.--[MS. M.][392] [Compare _Marino Faliero_, act iv. sc. 2, lines 157, 158-- "Doge Dandolo survived to ninety summers, To vanquish empires, and refuse their crown.""The vessels that bore the bishops of S
- 201 [379] ["Gems wrought into drinking-vessels, among which the least precious were framed of turquoise, jasper, or amethyst ... unnumbered jacinths, emeralds, sapphires, chrysolites, and topazes, and, lastly, those matchless carbuncles which, placed on
- 200 Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Gla.s.ses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed--in breeze, or gale, or storm-- Icing the Pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving--boundless, endless, and sublime-- The image of Eternity-
- 199 But where is he, the Pilgrim of my Song, The Being who upheld it through the past?Methinks he cometh late and tarries long.He is no more--these breathings are his last-- His wanderings done--his visions ebbing fast, And he himself as nothing:--if he was A
- 198 Shrine of all saints and temple of all G.o.ds, From Jove to Jesus--spared and blest by Time-- Looking tranquillity, while falls or nods Arch--empire--each thing round thee--and Man plods His way through thorns to ashes--glorious Dome!Shalt thou not last?
- 197 Arches on arches![506] as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands;[507] the moonbeams s.h.i.+ne As 'twere its natural torches--for divine Should be the light which
- 196 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory--when that fails, Wealth--Vice--Corruption,--Barbarism at last.And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but _one_ page,--'tis better written here, Where gorgeous Tyranny
- 195 The fool of false dominion--and a kind Of b.a.s.t.a.r.d Caesar, following him of old With steps unequal; for the Roman's mind Was modelled in a less terrestrial mould,[26.H.]With pa.s.sions fiercer, yet a judgment cold,[470]And an immortal instinct w
- 194 Horribly beautiful! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris[453] sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene It
- 193 In Santa Croce's[431] holy precincts lie[15.H.]Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this, The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos:--here repose An
- 192 The tears and praises of all time, while thine Would rot in its oblivion--in the sink Of worthless dust, which from thy boasted line Is shaken into nothing--but the link Thou formest in his fortunes bids us think Of thy poor malice, naming thee with scorn
- 191 Thus, Venice! if no stronger claim were thine, Were all thy proud historic deeds forgot-- Thy choral memory of the Bard divine, Thy love of Ta.s.so, should have cut the knot[lt]Which ties thee to thy tyrants; and thy lot Is shameful to the nations,--most
- 190 CANTO THE FOURTH[375]I.I stood in Venice, on the "Bridge of Sighs;"[376][1.H.]A Palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the Enchanter's wand:[377]A thousand Years their cloudy wing
- 189 Stanza xlvii. "Yet, Italy! through every other land,"-- Stanza li. "Appear'dst thou not to Paris in this guise?"-- Stanza lii. "Glowing, and circ.u.mfused in speechless love,"-- Stanza liv.-lx. "In Santa Croce'
- 188 The poem as it stood was complete, and, as a poem, it lost as well as gained by the insertion of additional stanzas and groups of stanzas, "purple patch" on "purple patch," each by itself so attractive and so splendid. The pilgrim find
- 187 "Je ne trouve pas de plus digne hommage a la Divinite que cette admiration muette qu'excite la contemplation de ses oeuvres, et qui ne s'exprime point par des actes developpes. Je comprends comment les habitants des villes, qui ne voient qu
- 186 "The Army of the Sambre and Meuse to its Commander-in-Chief Hoche."This is all, and as it should be. Hoche was esteemed among the first of France's earlier generals, before Buonaparte monopolised her triumphs.He was the destined commander o
- 185 ?s?????? t' ????a? ?p???s?t?? [I)sono/mous t' A)the/nas e)poiesa/ten]"Hence," says Mr. Tozer, "'the sword in myrtles drest' (Keble's _Christian Year_, Third Sunday in Lent) became the emblem of a.s.sertors of libert
- 184 Parnell's _Vigil of Venus: British Poets_, 1794, vii. 7.][kr] {279} ----_driven him to repose._--[MS.][342] [Compare _Confessions of J. J. Rousseau_, lib. iv., _pa.s.sim._][343] {281} [In his appreciation of Voltaire, Byron, no doubt, had in mind cer
- 183 [kb] _Deep into Nature's breast the existence which they lose_.--[MS.][331] [For the a.s.sociation of "Fortune" and "Fame" with a star, compare stanza xi. lines 5, 6-- "Who can contemplate Fame through clouds unfold The _star
- 182 " ... he lived Through that which had been death to many men, And made him friends of mountains: with the stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues! and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries."][je] {260} ----_
- 181 _Earth's dreams of Heaven--and such to seem to me_ _But one thing wants thy stream_----.--[MS.][303] [Compare Lucan's _Pharsalia_, ix. 969, "Etiam periere ruinae;" and the lines from Ta.s.so's _Gerusalemme Liberata_, xv. 20, quote
- 180 [293] {234} [The Hon. Frederick Howard (1785-1815), third son of Frederick, fifth Earl of Carlisle, fell late in the evening of the 18th of June, in a final charge of the left square of the French Guard, in which Vivian brought up Howard's hussars ag
- 179 Compare, too, with stanzas xiii., xiv., _ibid_., lines 58-72.][gu] _Fool he not to know_.--[MS. erased.][gv]_Where there were mountains there for him were friends_._Where there was Ocean--there he was at home_.--[MS.][gw] {224} _Like the Chaldean he could
- 178 Yet, though dull Hate as duty should be taught,[353]I know that thou wilt love me: though my name Should be shut from thee, as a spell still fraught With desolation, and a broken claim: Though the grave closed between us,--'twere the same, I know tha
- 177 Thine air is the young breath of pa.s.sionate Thought; Thy trees take root in Love; the snows above,[kk]The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And Sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought[21.B.]By rays which sleep there lovingly: the rocks,[kl]The per
- 176 Broken and trembling to the yoke she bore, Till by the voice of him and his compeers, Roused up to too much wrath which follows o'ergrown fears?Lx.x.xII.They made themselves a fearful monument!The wreck of old opinions--things which grew,[jw]Breathed
- 175 LXV.By a lone wall a lonelier column rears A gray and grief-worn aspect of old days; 'Tis the last remnant of the wreck of years, And looks as with the wild-bewildered gaze Of one to stone converted by amaze, Yet still with consciousness; and there i
- 174 But Thou, exulting and abounding river!Making thy waves a blessing as they flow Through banks whose beauty would endure for ever Could man but leave thy bright creation so, Nor its fair promise from the surface mow[il]With the sharp scythe of conflict, th
- 173 x.x.xIII.Even as a broken Mirror,[296] which the gla.s.s In every fragment multiplies--and makes A thousand images of one that was, The same--and still the more, the more it breaks; And thus the heart will do which not forsakes, Living in shattered guise;
- 172 Self-exiled Harold wanders forth again,[286]With nought of Hope left--but with less of gloom; The very knowledge that he lived in vain, That all was over on this side the tomb, Had made Despair a smilingness a.s.sume, Which, though 'twere wild,--as o
- 171 [The following memorandum, in Byron's handwriting, is prefixed to the Transcription:-- "This copy is to be printed from--subject to comparison with the original MS. (from which this is a transcription) in such parts as it may chance to be diffic
- 170 The mistake seemed so completely a lapse of the pen (from the great _similarity_ of the two words, and the _total absence of error_ from the former pages of the literary leviathan) that I should have pa.s.sed it over as in the text, had I not perceived in
- 169 [225] [Miss Owenson (Sydney, Lady Morgan), 1783-1859, published her _Woman, or Ida of Athens_, in 4 vols., in 1812. Writing to Murray, February 20, 1818, Byron alludes to the "cruel work" which an article (attributed to Croker but, probably, wri
- 168 I remember Mahmout, the grandson of Ali Pacha, asking whether my fellow-traveller and myself were in the upper or lower House of Parliament. Now, this question from a boy of ten years old proved that his education had not been neglected. It may be doubted
- 167 Franciscan Convent, Athens, _January_ 23, 1811.[236]Amongst the remnants of the barbarous policy of the earlier ages, are the traces of bondage which yet exist in different countries; whose inhabitants, however divided in religion and manners, almost all
- 166 Some thoughts on this subject will be found in the subjoined papers, pp.187-208.34.Spirit of Freedom! when on Phyle's brow Thou sat'st with Thrasybulus and his train.Stanza lxxiv. lines 1 and 2.Phyle, which commands a beautiful view of Athens, h
- 165 ["Mount Tomerit, or Tomohr," says Mr. Tozer, "lies north-east of Tepalen, and therefore the sun could not set behind it" (_Childe Harold_, 1885, p. 272). But, writing to Drury, May 3, 1810, Byron says that "he penetrated as far as
- 164 Leucadia, now Santa Maura. From the promontory (the Lover's Leap) Sappho is said to have thrown herself.[Strabo (lib. x. cap. 2, ed. Paris, 1853, p. 388) gives Menander as an authority for the legend that Sappho was the first to take the "Lover&
- 163 [The _Mentor_, which Elgin had chartered to convey to England a cargo consisting of twelve chests of antiquities, was wrecked off the Island of Cerigo, in 1803. His secretary, W. R. Hamilton, set divers to work, and rescued four chests; but the remainder
- 162 [fx] _When uttered to the listener's eye_----.--[MS. L.][fy] _The host, the plain, the fight_----.--[MS. L.][fz] _The shattered Mede who flies with broken bow_.--[MS. L.][196] ["The plain of Marathon is enclosed on three sides by the rocky arms
- 161 And as they roared out this stave, they whirled round the fire, dropped, and rebounded from their knees, and again whirled round as the chorus was again repeated."--_Travels in Albania_, i. 166, 167.][169] {145} [This was not Byron's first exper
- 160 [fc] {132} _But frequent is the lamb, the kid, the goat_-- _And watching pensive with his browsing flock_.--[MS. erased.][fd] _Counting the hours beneath yon skies unerring shock_.--[MS.erased.][151] [The site of Dodona, a spot "at the foot of Mount
- 159 Writing at Athens, January 16, 1810, he tells us, "The spell is broke, the charm is flown."][134] {120} [More than one commentator gravely "sets against" this line--Byron's statement to Dallas (_Corr. of Lord Byron_, Paris, 1824,
- 158 [-1] Attila was horned, if we may trust contemporary legends, and the etchings of his visage in Lavater.--[M.S.][-2] Lines 5-9 in the Dallas transcript are in Byron's handwriting.[-3] _Which centuries forgot_----.--[D. erased.][ea] {108} After stanza
- 157 till I have become callous, nor have I a tear left for an event which, five years ago, would have bowed down my head to the earth. It seems as though I were to experience in my youth the greatest misery of age. My friends fall around me, and I shall be le
- 156 This must he feel, the true-born son of Greece, If Greece one true-born patriot still can boast: Not such as prate of War, but skulk in Peace, The bondsman's peace, who sighs for all he lost, Yet with smooth smile his Tyrant can accost, And wield the
- 155 The fault of a friend, bid an enemy live?Let those guns so unerring such vengeance forego?What mark is so fair as the breast of a foe?[172]4.Macedonia sends forth her invincible race; For a time they abandon the cave and the chase: But those scarfs of blo
- 154 He pa.s.sed the sacred Haram's silent tower, And underneath the wide o'erarching gate Surveyed the dwelling of this Chief of power, Where all around proclaimed his high estate.Amidst no common pomp the Despot sate, While busy preparation shook t
- 153 'Twas on a Grecian autumn's gentle eve Childe Harold hailed Leucadia's cape afar; A spot he longed to see, nor cared to leave: Oft did he mark the scenes of vanished war, Actium--Lepanto--fatal Trafalgar;[13.B.]Mark them unmoved, for he wou
- 152 'Tis night, when Meditation bids us feel We once have loved, though Love is at an end: The Heart, lone mourner of its baffled zeal,[ej]Though friendless now, will dream it had a friend.Who with the weight of years would wish to bend, When Youth itsel
- 151 VIII.[119]Yet if, as holiest men have deemed, there be[dv]A land of Souls beyond that sable sh.o.r.e, To shame the Doctrine of the Sadducee And Sophists, madly vain of dubious lore; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labo
- 150 Engracia. Capitulation']. The reply was, 'Quartel-general, Zaragoza.Guerra al cuchillo' ['Head-quarters, Zaragoza. War at the knife's point']." Subsequently, December, 1808, when Moncey (1754-1842) again called upon him
- 149 [Manuel de G.o.doy (1767-1851) received the t.i.tle of _Principe de la Paz_, Prince of the Peace, in 1795, after the Treaty of Basle, which ceded more than half St. Domingo to France. His tenure of power, as prime minister and director of the king's
- 148 [107] [Compare the In Memoriam stanzas at the end of Beattie's _Minstrel_--"And am I left to unavailing woe?" II. 63, line 2.][dl] {83} ----_belov'd the most_.--[MS. D.][108] [With reference to this stanza, Byron wrote to Dallas, Octob
- 147 [93] [One bull-fight, one matador. In describing the last act Byron confuses the _chulos_ or cloak-waving footmen, who had already played their part, with the single champion, the matador, who is about to administer the _coup de grace_.][dd] ----_he lies
- 146 [76] {57} ["A short two-edged knife or dagger ... formerly worn at the girdle" (_N. Eng. Dict._, art. "Anlace"). The "anlace" of the Spanish heroines was the national weapon, the _punal_, or _cuchillo_, which was sometimes st
- 145 [bt]_For ever famed--in many a native song_.--[MS. erased.]----_a noted song_.--[MS. D.][57] [Compare Virgil, _aeneid_, i. 100-- "Ubi tot Simois correpta sub undis Scuta virum galeasque et fortia corpora volvit."][58] [The standard, a cross made
- 144 [48] {36} "I don't remember any crosses there."--[Pencilled note by J.C.Hobhouse.][The crosses made no impression upon Hobhouse, who, no doubt, had realized that they were nothing but guideposts. For an explanation, see letter of Mr. Matthe
- 143 224).][aj] {27} _Our best gos-hawk can hardly fly_ _So merrily along_.--[MS.]_Our best greyhound can hardly fly_.--[D. erased.][ak] Here follows in the MS. the following erased stanza:-- _My mother is a high-born dame_, _And much misliketh me;_ _She saith
- 142 [q] ------_nor honied glose of rhyme_.--[D. pencil.][r] _Childe Burun_------.--[MS.][s] {18} _For he had on the course too swiftly run_.--[MS. erased.][t] _Had courted many_----.--[MS. erased.][24] [Mary Chaworth. (Compare "Stanzas to a Lady, on leav
- 141 [e] _My readers will observe that where the author speaks in his own person he a.s.sumes a very different tone from that of_ "_The cheerless thing, the man without a friend_,"_at least, till death had deprived him of his nearest connections_._I
- 140 It is that weariness which springs From all I meet, or hear, or see: To me no pleasure Beauty brings; Thine eyes have scarce a charm for me.5.It is that settled, ceaseless gloom The fabled Hebrew Wanderer bore; That will not look beyond the tomb, But cann
- 139 Some o'er thy Thamis row the ribboned fair,[dc]Others along the safer turnpike fly; Some Richmond-hill ascend, some scud to Ware, And many to the steep of Highgate hie.Ask ye, Boeotian Shades! the reason why?[15.B.]'Tis to the wors.h.i.+p of the