 Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out...  English Men of Letters - Page 187edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here : — up to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's...around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. j TO A SKYLARK. BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. — 1792-1822. [PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, the son and heir of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give 35 Away thy breath ! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's...around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. 40 ccxxix PESCIIIERA. What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? "Tis better... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 188 pages
...youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here : — up to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out— less often sought than found — A soldier's...around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. I и \},"fiiii [3 ¡ч-Ъ luliifiUlnni'liU'f¿ uin. iUii["i' l-'li /• i~ funmuifys \}L. ,fk'i J-tiJíntmf_... | |
 | Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1924 - 516 pages
...Stanhope and other friends on the evening of his thirty-sixth birthday. The concluding stanza runs : " Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's...look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest ". He said to Tita at this time : " No, Tita, I shall never go back from Greece — either the Turks,... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breathl Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's...around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. Byron seems to have intended this as his last poem, but his Muses had it otherwise, and ended him with... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here - up to the Field, and give 35 Away thy breath! A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around, and choose thy ground. And take thy Rest. in 1824 1824 Childe Harold's Pilorimage CANTO III Afin que cette application vous format a penser a... | |
 | Kay Redfield Jamison - 1996 - 388 pages
...Youth, why live? The land of honourable Death Is here: — up to the Field, and give Away thy Breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A Soldier's...Then look around, and choose thy Ground, And take thy Rest!176 Byron contracted a fever and died in April 1824, almost certainly a result not only of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...youth, why live? The land of honourable death 35 Is here: - up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out - less often sought than found A soldier's...the best; Then look around, and choose thy ground, 40 And take thy rest. x A Fragment ('When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice') Written 1803; printed... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's...around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. (33-4°) This last command is easy and efficient, albeit suicidal. The speaker finds the way out of... | |
 | William L. Frank - 2000 - 170 pages
...in the closing of his poem: "Seek out — less often sought than found — / A soldier's grave, for the best; / Then look around, and choose thy ground, / And take thy rest" (37-40). Thwarted in his plans, Tod returns home a hero, but because of the conflict between his war... | |
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