Poetical Works, Volume 7Little, Brown, 1866 |
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Abel Adah Adam Arbaces art thou Assyria aught Bactria BARBARIGO bear beautiful behold Beleses better blood breath brother Cain Chief council curse dare death Doge dost thou dread ducal dungeon dust earth Enter eternity Euphrates evil Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel Foscari Francesco Foscari Giacopo Guard happy hath hear heard heart heaven HEBER hour immortal king leave less live look Lord Byron Loredano Lucifer Marina Mede monarch mortal Myrrha mystery ne'er never Nimrod Nineveh o'er Offi palace PANIA Paradise Pietro Loredano pray pre-Adamite prince realm rebels Salemenes Sardanapalus satraps Semiramis serpent SFERO signor sire slaves soldiers soul speak spirit sword tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought true unto Venice wherefore wilt thou words wouldst thou wretched Zillah
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Page 41 - The very first Of human life must spring from woman's breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.
Page 281 - Why did he Yield to the serpent and the woman? or, Yielding, why suffer? What was there in this? The tree was planted, and why not for him? If not, why place him near it, where it grew, The fairest in the centre? They have but One answer to all questions, " 'twas his will, And he is good.
Page 146 - Let's not unman each other! part at once : All farewells should be sudden, when for ever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.
Page 362 - CAIN. After the fall too soon was I begotten; Ere yet my mother's mind subsided from The serpent, and my sire still mourn'd for Eden. That which I am, I am ; I did not seek For life, nor did I make myself; but could I With my own death redeem him from the dust — And why not so?
Page 272 - I never troubled myself with answering any arguments which the opponents in the Divinity Schools brought against the articles of the Church, nor ever admitted their authority as decisive of a difficulty ; but I used on such occasions, to say to them, holding the New Testament in my hand, ' En sacrum Codicem.' Here is the fountain of truth, why do you follow the streams derived from it by the sophistry, or polluted by the passions of man...
Page 3 - TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OF A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE LORD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITERS', WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND ILLUSTRATED THAT OF EUROPE.
Page 273 - ... because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern; and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
Page 269 - I accept with feelings of great obligation the flattering proposal of Lord Byron to prefix my name to the very grand and tremendous drama of Cain. I may be partial to it, and you will allow I have cause; but I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight amid her former soarings. He has certainly matched Milton on his own ground.
Page 157 - Gifford don't take to my new dramas : to be sure, they are as opposite to the English drama as one thing can be to another ; but I have a notion that, if understood, they will in time find favour (though not on the stage) with the reader. The Simplicity of plot is intentional, and the avoidance of rant also, as also the compression of the Speeches in the more severe situations. What I seek to show in The Foscaris is the suppressed passion, rather than the rant of the present day.