Cain: A MysteryA. and W. Galignani, 1822 - 137 pages |
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Abel's ADAH ADAM altar Anacreon ANGEL art thou aught bear beautiful behold blood book of Genesis breathe brother Abel Canzonets cherubim curse death didst thou Dost thou doth dread dust dwell earth English eternity evil eyes father fear French fruits GALIGNANI GALIGNANI'S gentle hail happy hast thou hath heard heart heaven hour immortal innumerable ITALY Jehovah knowledge LADY MORGAN light live look LORD BYRON lovest LUCIFER mighty Months mortal mother myriads mystery ne'er never nought o'er omnipotent Paradise parents PARIS perish pluck'd poem Pre-Adamites price gfr sacrifice see'st seraphs serpent sinn'd SIR WALTER SCOTT sire snatch'd speak spirit stars tempt thick vol thine things thou art thou hast shown thou say'st thou shalt thou Wert thou wilt thought thy sons thy world thyself tree twere Twill unto vellum paper wherefore Wilt thou worship Wouldst thou wretched ZILLAH
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Page 129 - May every element shun or change to him ! May he live in the pangs which others die with ! And death itself wax something worse than death To him who first acquainted him with man ! Hence, fratricide ! henceforth that word is Cain, Through all the coming myriads of mankind, Who shall abhor thee, though thou wert their sire ! May the grass wither from thy feet ! the woods Deny thee shelter ! earth a home ! the dust A grave ! the sun his light ! and heaven her God ! lExit EVE.
Page 22 - managing his pen with the careless and negligent ease of a man of quality,' Byron wrote in his Cain — Souls that dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good...
Page 100 - Not by words, though of spirits, but the fruits Of your existence, such as it must be. One good gift has the fatal apple given — Your reason : — let it not be over-sway'd By tyrannous threats to force you into faith 'Gainst all external sense and inward feeling : Think and endure, — and form an inner world In your own bosom — where the outward fails ; So shall you nearer be the spiritual Nature, and war triumphant with your own.
Page 50 - With us acts are exempt from time, and we Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an 'hour into eternity : We breathe not by a mortal measurement — But that's a mystery.
Page 58 - Oh, thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights ! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measured for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion — at which my soul aches to think— Intoxicated with eternity?