The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon Broke out of bounds o'er the ethereal blue, Splitting... The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, - Page 251by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1835Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1911 - 252 pages
...stronger pull, And " a pull all together," as they say At sea — which drew most souls another way. II The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse...playful tail, As boats are sometimes by a wanton whale. Ill The guardian seraphs had retired on high, Finding their charges past all care below ; Terrestrial... | |
| George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...stronger pull, And "a pull all together," as they say At sea — which drew most souls another way. 2 ough me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think...bower, 10 The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis 1 See Byron's Don Juan, XT, 60 and n. 5 (p. 010). 2Spe Southey 's A 7f«ion of Judgment (p, 409). •The... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 pages
...longer, stronger pull, And "a pull altogether," as they say At sea — which drew most souls another way. The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet,... | |
| 1901 - 1328 pages
...At .-vu, which drew most souls the other way. The angels all were singing out of tune, And hotirae with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun an<2 moon, And curb a runaway young sta[r or two, &c.] To this passage, before examining it, let us... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...67 Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate: His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull, (1. 1—2) 68 w O (1. 9—12) 69 It seemed the mockery of hell to fold The rottenness of eighty years in gold. (1. 79-80)... | |
| David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - 1992 - 428 pages
...stronger pull, And "a pull altogether," as they say At sea—which drew most souls another way. II The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, 10 Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet,... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...ludgemcnl (1810; repr. in Complete Writings, «1. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1 457). 2 The Angels were all singing out of tune. And hoarse with having little else to do. Excepting to wind up the sun and motín Or curb a runaway young star or two. LORD BYRON (1 788-1 824), English poet. The Vision of }udsment,... | |
| George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...they say At sea— which drew most souls another way. П. The angels all were singing oat of tone, t, As enrabíese crags within the mist ; For son and moon, Or curb a runaway yonng «tar or two, Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon Ш. The... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...stronger pull, And 'a pull altogether', as they say At sea - which drew most souls another way. •2 The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, 10 Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...as they say At sea - which drew most souls another way. The angels all were singing out of tune, 10 And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting...too soon Broke out of bounds o'er the ethereal blue, 15 Splitting some planet with its playful tail, As boats are sometimes by a wanton whale. Ill The guardian... | |
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