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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
- 501 _Werner; or, The Inheritance_, was begun at Pisa, December 18, 1821, and finished January 20, 1822. At the end of the month, January 29, Byron despatched the MS., not to Murray, but to Moore, then in retreat at Paris, intending, no doubt, that it should b
- 502 "The new Sesostris, whose unharnessed kings."_Werner_, act iii. sc. 3, lines 10, 11-- "... while the knoll Of long-lived parents."_Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza xcvi. lines 5, 6-- "... is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless.&
- 503 WERNER _and_ JOSEPHINE, _his Wife_._Jos._ My love, be calmer!_Wer._ I am calm._Jos._ To me-- Yes, but not to thyself: thy pace is hurried, And no one walks a chamber like to ours, With steps like thine, when his heart is at rest.Were it a garden, I should
- 504 _Wer._ An exile's daughter with an outcast son, Were a fit marriage: but I still had hopes To lift thee to the state we both were born for.Your father's house was n.o.ble, though decayed; And worthy by its birth to match with ours._Jos._ Your fa
- 505 _Gab._ If I intrude, I crave---- _Iden._ Oh, no intrusion! 250 This is the palace; this a stranger like Yourself; I pray you make yourself at home: But where's his Excellency? and how fares he?_Gab._ Wetly and wearily, but out of peril: He paused to
- 506 _Gab._ You look one still. All soldiers are Or should be comrades, even though enemies.Our swords when drawn must cross, our engines aim (While levelled) at each other's hearts; but when A truce, a peace, or what you will, remits 350 The steel into i
- 507 _Stral._ I apprehend This is one of the strangers to whose aid[cp]I owe my rescue. Is not that the other?[_Pointing to_ WERNER.My state when I was succoured must excuse 470 My uncertainty to whom I owe so much._Iden._ He!--no, my Lord! he rather wants for
- 508 _Enter_ IDENSTEIN _and_ FRITZ _in conversation_._Fritz_. Immediately._Iden._ I tell you, 'tis impossible._Fritz_. It must Be tried, however; and if one express 590 Fail, you must send on others, till the answer Arrives from Frankfort, from the comman
- 509 _Jos._ (_coming forward_).I fain would shun these scenes, too oft repeated, Of feudal tyranny o'er petty victims; I cannot aid, and will not witness such.Even here, in this remote, unnamed, dull spot, 700 The dimmest in the district's map, exist
- 510 _Fritz_. How? _We_, sir!_Iden._ No--not _you_, But some of the inferior knaves. You say The Baron was asleep in the great chair-- The velvet chair--in his embroidered night-gown; His toilet spread before him, and upon it A cabinet with letters, papers, an
- 511 _Iden._ Humph!--not exactly._Stral._ Or, at least, suspected?_Iden._ Oh! for that matter, very much suspected._Stral._ Who may he be?_Iden._ Why, don't _you_ know, my Lord? 200 _Stral._ How should I? I was fast asleep._Iden._ And so Was I--and that&#
- 512 Thou art indeed a melancholy jest! [_Exit_ GABOR.SCENE II.--_The Apartment of_ WERNER, _in the Palace_._Enter_ JOSEPHINE _and_ ULRIC._Jos._ Stand back, and let me look on thee again!My Ulric!--my beloved!--can it be-- After twelve years?_Ulr._ My dearest
- 513 _Ulr._ I named a villain. What is there in common With such a being and my father?_Wer._ Every thing!That ruffian is thy father![177]_Jos._ Oh, my son!Believe him not--and yet!--(_her voice falters_.) _Ulr._ (_starts, looks earnestly at_ WERNER _and then
- 514 _Gab._ Then next time let him go sink Ere I go hang for s.n.a.t.c.hing him from drowning.But here he comes!_Enter_ STRALENHEIM._Gab._ (_goes up to him_). My n.o.ble Lord, I'm here! 200 _Stral._ Well, sir!_Gab._ Have you aught with me?_Stral._ What sh
- 515 _Ulr._ I merely asked a simple question._Gab._ If the judge asked me, I would answer "No"-- To you I answer _thus_. [_He draws_._Ulr._ (_drawing_). With all my heart!_Jos._ Without there! Ho! help! help!--Oh, G.o.d!here's murder! [_Exit_ JO
- 516 _Stral._ He stands Between me and a brave inheritance! 370 Oh! could you see it! But you shall._Ulr._ I hope so._Stral._ It is the richest of the rich Bohemia, Unscathed by scorching war. It lies so near The strongest city, Prague, that fire and sword Hav
- 517 _Wer._ It is a d.a.m.ned world, sir._Gab._ So is the nearest of the two next, as The priests say (and no doubt they should know best), Therefore I'll stick by this--as being both To suffer martyrdom, at least with such An epitaph as larceny upon my t
- 518 _Wer._ You see he is not here._Iden._ And yet we traced him 130 Up to this hall. Are you accomplices?Or deal you in the black art?_Wer._ I deal plainly, To many men the blackest._Iden._ It may be I have a question or two for yourself Hereafter; but we mus
- 519 _Wer._ I see it, and I feel it; yet I feel Further--that you despise me._Ulr._ Wherefore should I?_Wer._ Must I repeat my humiliation?_Ulr._ No!I have fathomed it and you. But let us talk Of this no more. Or, if it must be ever, 240 Not _now_. Your error
- 520 Shalt thou be mine? I am, methinks, already A little king, a lucky alchymist!-- 340 A wise magician, who has bound the devil Without the forfeit of his soul. But come, Werner, or what else?_Wer._ Call me Werner still; You may yet know me by a loftier t.i.
- 521 I'll face it. Who shall dare suspect me?_Ulr._ Yet You had _no_ guests--_no_ visitors--no life Breathing around you, save my mother's?_Wer._ Ah!The Hungarian?_Ulr._ He is gone! he disappeared Ere sunset._Wer._ No; I hid him in that very Conceale
- 522 _Eric_. That's not a faithful va.s.sal's likeness._Hen._ But Perhaps a true one._Eric_. Pity, as I said, The wars are over: in the hall, who like Count Ulric for a well-supported pride, Which awes, but yet offends not? in the field, Who like him
- 523 _Ulr._ I think so; for I love Nought else.--But I have not the time to pause Upon these gewgaws of the heart. Great things We have to do ere long. Speed! speed! good Rodolph!_Rod._ On my return, however, I shall find The Baroness Ida lost in Countess Sieg
- 524 _Ulr._ _Where?_ _Ida._ In sleep--I see him lie Pale, bleeding, and a man with a raised knife Beside him._Ulr._ But you do not see his _face?_ _Ida_ (_looking at him_). No! Oh, my G.o.d! do _you?_ _Ulr._ Why do you ask?_Ida._ Because you look as if you saw
- 525 _Sieg._ (_starts_). Ah!-- Where? on _what_ frontier?_Rod._ The Silesian, on My way--(_Aside to_ ULRIC.)--_Where_ shall I say?_Ulr._ (_aside to_ RODOLPH). To Hamburgh.(_Aside to himself_). That Word will, I think, put a firm padlock on His further inquisit
- 526 _Sieg._ (_solus_). Too much!-- Too much of duty, and too little love!He pays me in the coin he owes me not: For such hath been my wayward fate, I could not Fulfil a parent's duties by his side Till now; but love he owes me, for my thoughts Ne'er
- 527 ACT V.SCENE I.--_A large and magnificent Gothic Hall in the Castle of Siegendorf, decorated with Trophies, Banners, and Arms of that Family_._Enter_ ARNHEIM _and_ MEISTER, _attendants of_ COUNT SIEGENDORF._Arn._ Be quick! the Count will soon return: the l
- 528 _Ulr._ You dream._Sieg._ I live! and as I live, I saw him-- Heard him! he dared to utter even my name._Ulr._ What name?_Sieg._ Werner! _'twas_ mine._Ulr._ It must be so No more: forget it._Sieg._ Never! never! all My destinies were woven in that name
- 529 _Sieg._ Name him._Gab._ He May have more names than one. Your Lords.h.i.+p had so Once on a time._Sieg._ If you mean me, I dare Your utmost._Gab._ You may do so, and in safety; I know the a.s.sa.s.sin._Sieg._ Where is he?_Gab._ (_pointing to_ ULRIC). Besi
- 530 _Sieg._ You merciful?-- You! Base calumniator!_Gab._ I. 'Twill rest With me at last to be so. You concealed me-- In secret pa.s.sages known to yourself, You said, and to none else. At dead of night, Weary with watching in the dark, and dubious Of tra
- 531 He, you, and I stood o'er a gulf wherein I have plunged our enemy. _You_ kindled first The torch--_you_ showed the path; now trace me that Of safety--or let me!_Sieg._ I have done with life!_Ulr._ Let us have done with that which cankers life-- Famil
- 532 _Jos._ What is't we hear? My Siegendorf!Thank Heaven, I see you safe!_Sieg._ Safe!_Ida._ Yes, dear father!_Sieg._ No, no; I have no children: never more Call me by that worst name of parent._Jos._ What Means my good Lord?_Sieg._ That you have given b
- 533 Lennart Torstenson, Swedish general, born 1603, fought at the battle of Leipzig, and was taken prisoner at Nurnburg. In 1641 he was appointed General-in-Chief of the Swedes in Germany, and died at Stockholm, April, 1651.Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, born
- 534 ACT I.SCENE I.--_A ruinous chateau on the Silesian frontier of Bohemia_._Josepha_. THE storm is at it's height--how the wind howls, Like an unearthly voice, through these lone chambers!And the rain patters on the flapping cas.e.m.e.nt Which quivers i
- 535 _Josepha_. You shall have it, 10 Such as this ruinous mansion may afford: Tis s.p.a.cious, but too cold and crazy now For Hospitality's more cordial welcome: But as it is 'tis yours._Werner_ (_to his wife_). Why say ye so?At once such hearty gre
- 536 _Carl_. Nay--that's hopeless. 140 They must not only mend but draw it too.The mules are drowned--a murrain on them both!One kicked me as I would have helped him on._Stralenheim_. It is most irksome to me--this delay.I was for Prague on business of gr
- 537 A DRAMA.INTRODUCTION TO _THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED_.The date of the original MS. of _The Deformed Transformed_ is "Pisa, 1822." There is nothing to show in what month it was written, but it may be conjectured that it was begun and finished within
- 538 _Arn._ Would that I had been so, And never seen the light!_Bert._ I would so, too!But as thou _hast_--hence, hence--and do thy best!That back of thine may bear its burthen; 'tis More high, if not so broad as that of others._Arn._ It _bears_ its burth
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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-
- 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
- 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
- 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,"
- 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
- 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;
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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--
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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; �
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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&
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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'
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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