The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
English poetry
ADDITIONAL STANZA.
Stanza xl. "Great as thou art, yet paralleled by those,"--
(127 stanzas.)
ADDITIONS BOUND UP WITH MS. M.
Stanza ii. "She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from Ocean,"--
Stanza xii.-xiv. "The Suabian sued, and now the Austrian reigns,"
--(November 10, 1817.)--"In youth She was all glory,--a new Tyre,"--
Stanza xvi. "When Athens' armies fell at Syracuse,"--
Stanza xvii. "Thus, Venice! if no stronger claim were thine,"--
Stanza xxvii.-xxix. "The Moon is up, and yet it is not night,"--"Filled
with the face of heaven, which, from afar,"--
Stanza xlvii. "Yet, Italy! through every other land,"--
Stanza li. "Appear'dst thou not to Paris in this guise?"--
Stanza lii. "Glowing, and circumfused in speechless love,"--
Stanza liv.-lx. "In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie,"--"What is her
Pyramid of precious stones?"--
Stanza lxxx.-lxxxii. "The Goth, the Christian--Time--War--Flood, and
Fire,"--"Alas! the lofty city! and alas!"--
Stanza lxxxv. "Sylla was first of victors; but our own,"--
Stanza lxxxvi. "The third of the same Moon whose former course,"--
Stanza xciii.-xcvi. "What from this barren being do we reap?"--"Can
tyrants but by tyrants conquered be,"--
Stanza cix. "Admire--exult--despise--laugh--weep,--for here,"--
Stanza cxii.-cxiv. "Where is the rock of Triumph, the high
place,"--"Then turn we to her latest Tribune's name,"--
Stanza cxxiii. "Who loves, raves--'tis youth's frenzy--but the cure,"--
Stanza cxxv.-cxxvii. "Few--none--find what they love or could have
loved,"--"Yet let us ponder boldly--'tis a base,"--
Stanza cxxxv.-cxxxvii. "That curse shall be Forgiveness,--Have I
not,"--"But I have lived, and have not lived in vain,"--
Stanza clii. "Turn to the Mole which Hadrian reared on high,"--
Stanza clxvii.-clxxii. "Hark! forth from the abyss a voice
proceeds,"--(On the death of the Princess Charlotte, November 6,
1817.)--"These might have been her destiny--but no,"--
Stanza clxxiii. "Lo, Nemi! navelled in the woody hills,"--
Stanza clxxiv. "And near, Albano's scarce divided waves,"--
Stanza clxxvii. "Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place,"--(1818.)
Stanza clxxviii. "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,"--(1818.)
Stanza clxxxi. "The armaments which thunderstrike the walls,"--
Stanza clxxxii. "Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee,"--
(52 stanzas.)
ADDITIONS INCLUDED IN MS. D.,[363] BUT NOT AMONG MSS. M.
Stanza xli. "The lightning rent from Ariosto's bust,"--
Stanza xcvii. "But France got drunk with blood to vomit crime,"--
Stanza xcviii. "Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,"--
Stanza cxx. "Alas! our young affections run to waste,"--
Stanza cxxi. "Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art,"--
Stanza cxxii. "Of its own beauty is the mind diseased,"--
Stanza cxxiv. "We wither from our youth, we gasp away,"--
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