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" Many are poets but without the name, For what is poesy but to create From overfeeling good or ill ; and aim At an external life beyond our fate, And be the new Prometheus of new men, Bestowing fire from heaven, and then, too late, Finding the pleasure... "
The Works of Lord Byron - Page 274
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825
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A manual of English prosody

Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pages
...poets, but without the name ; For what is poesy but to create From overfeeling good or ill ; and aim At an external life beyond our fate, And be the new...late Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain. Prophecy of Dante. Rhyme Royal. — Seven heroics, the first five rhyming at intervals, the last two...
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Rhetoric: A Text-book : Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges, and for ...

Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 pages
...defined his own art thus : ' ' For what is poesy, but to create From overfeeling, good or ill ; and aim At an external life, beyond our fate, And be the new...too late Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain ?" "All they Whose intellect is an o'ermastering power Which still recoils from its encumbering clay...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Original Editions, with ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...but without the name, '-•л what is poesy but to create From overfeeling good or ill ; and aim í an external life beyond our fate, And be the new Prometheus...men, Bestowing fire from heaven, and then, too late, indjng the pleasure given repaid with pain, And vultures to the heart of the bestower, \Vho, having...
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The poetical works of lord Byron

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...poets but without the name, For what is poesy but to create From overfeeling good or ill ; and aim At an external life beyond our fate, And be the new...bestower, Who, having lavish'd his high gift in vain, Lies chain' d to his lone rock by the sea-shore? So be it : we can bear. — But thus all they Whose intellect...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, ed. with a critical mem. by W. M. Rossetti

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...hut to create From overfeeling good or ill ; and aim At an external life heyond our fate, - And he Pitt resign'd his hreath: These feelings wide, let...points it's due.' TO WHICH THE AUTHOE OF THESE PIE hestower, Who, having lavish'd his high gift in vain, ~ Lies chain' d to his lone rock hy the sea-shore?...
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The poetical works of lord Byron. Repr. with life, notes &c. 'Albion' ed

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 pages
...poets but without the name, For what is poesy but to create From overfeeling good or ill ; and aim At an external life beyond our fate, And be the new...bestower, Who, having lavish'd his high gift in vain, I_jes chain'd to his lone rock by the sea-shore? So be it : we can bear. — But thus all they Whose...
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The Grammar, History, and Derivation of the English Language

Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 pages
...poets, but without the name. For what is poesy but to ereate From overflowing good or ill ; and aim At an external life beyond our fate, And be the new...vultures to the heart of the bestower, Who having lavished his high gift in vain, Lies chained to his lone rook by the sea shore. Byron, Translation...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, ed. with a critical mem. by W. M. Rossetti

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...poets but without the name, For what is poesy but to create From overfceling good or ill ; and aim , As page and slave anon were passing out and in....yields to one her person and her heart, Tamed to he bestowcr, Who, having lavish d his high gift in vain, Lies chain' d to his lone rock by the sea-shore?...
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Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...poesy but to create From overfeeliug good or ill ; and aim At an external life beyond our fate, Aud hen they sink : Companion of the morning-star at dawn,...utter praise ! Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in lavished his high gift in vain, Lies chained to bis lone rock by the sea-shore ! So be it ; we can...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...poets, but without the ibune; For what is poesy but to create From overfecling good or ill; and aim At an external life beyond our fate And be the new Prometheus of new men, Bestowing tire from heaven, and then, too late. Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain, And vultures to...
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