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Eternity forbids thee to forget. - Lara (canto I, st. 23) [Eternity] "Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. - Lara (canto I, st. 3) [Expectation] Why did she love him? Curious fool!--be still-- Is human love the growth of human will? - Lara (canto II, st. 22) [Love] The best of prophets of the future is the past. - Letter [Past] In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . . I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive. - Lines addressed to the Rev. J.T. Becher (st. 7) [Friendship] It is not in the storm nor in the strife We feel benumb'd, and wish to be no more, But in the after-silence on the shore, When all is lost, except a little life. - Lines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill (l. 9) [Oblivion] Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! - Maid of Athens (st. 1) [Heart] From thy own smile I snatched the snake. - Manfred [Smiles] The tree of knowledge is not that of life. - Manfred (act I, sc. 1) [Knowledge] Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. - Manfred (act I, sc. 1, l. 62) [Mountains] But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar. - Manfred (act I, sc. 2, l. 39) [Man] Thinkst thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs; mine Have made my days and nights imperishable, Endless, and all alike. - Manfred (act II, sc. 1) [Time] Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. - Manfred (act II, sc. 4) [Knowledge] There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd He deals on his own soul. - Manfred (act III, sc. 1) [Conscience] The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. - Manfred (act III, sc. 4) [Worship] The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learn'd the language of another world. - Manfred (act III, sc. 4) [Night] They never fail who die In a great cause. - Marino Faliero (act II, sc. 2) [Success] The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not. - Marino Faliero (act IV, sc. 1, l. 51) [Festivities] But yet she listen'd--'tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff. - Mazeppa (st. 6) [Listening] 'Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff. - Mazeppa (st. 6) [Wooing] Who track the steps of Glory to the grave. - Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan [Glory] Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die--in moulding Sheridan. - Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (l. 117) [Man] Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. - Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (l. 68) [Fame : Folly] From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring. - Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (st. 3) [Painting] Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state? Yes--one the first, the last, the best, The Cincinnatus of the West Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington To make man blush; there was but one. - Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, referring to George Washington [Washington, George] Displaying page 30 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 [30] 31 32 33 34
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