TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can... The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 297by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873Full view - About this book
| 1826 - 450 pages
...constitution will improve simultaneously. I have suffered as much as yourself— I have felt " All > hat the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show, ' Theßtry fuat uf gouty toe' Which speak- hut ¡a its loneliness'" — and I have had the sense to... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 406 pages
...traced out Almost like a reality — the one To end in madness — both in misery. PROMETHEUS. TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan ! to thee the strife was given Between... | |
| Wilhelm Mueller - 1830 - 444 pages
...nidí)t feinen eigenen fd^ônen Sîerfen an bcn tíjeuá fo erg плЬефгефеп:*) , ftrtt 11* 163 The rock, the vulture and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not t-liun-, The suffocating sense of woe, Which speaks but in its loneliness, And then is jealous lest... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...forth to discover The beautiful Fountain of Youth. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL). PROMETHEUS. TIT AX! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan I to thee the strife was given Between... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 pages
...cannot be compared to Lord Byron in point of tenderness or imagination. But both these poets TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. ii. Titan 1 to thee the strife was given Between... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 308 pages
...poets held themselves above the opinion of the world, and both were followed PROMETHEUS. i. TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. n. Titan ! to thee the strife was given Between... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...traced out Almost like a reality — the one To end in madness — both in misery. PROMETHEUS. TITIAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. n. Titan ! to thee the strife was given Between... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pages
...Byron was not ever the champion of noisy miseries and talkative despair, but could feel the power of " Silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture,...loneliness, And then is jealous, lest the sky Should have a listener, nor mil sigh Until its voice is eeholsss." Hope and joy, to this stern misanthropy, are... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 530 pages
...Byron was not ever the champion of noisy miseries and talkative despair, but could feel the power of " Silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture,...sense of woe, Which speaks but in its loneliness, .ii'il then is jealous, lest the sky Should have a listener, nor vM sigh Until its voice is eclioless."... | |
| 1845 - 610 pages
...With an immortal's patience blending :" In his " Prometheus," also, he expresses a similar thought : " A silent suffering and intense ; The rock, the vulture,...The agony they do not show, The suffocating sense of wo, Which speaks but in its loneliness." strange inconsistency with the elevated condition of his breast.... | |
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