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" 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 251
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832
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English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement

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...
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British Poets of the Nineteenth Century, Part 2

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,...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 50

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...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

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)...
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Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831

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,...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

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,...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

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...
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Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

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,...
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Selected Poems

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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A Small Book of Angels

Eugene Stiles - 1996 - 100 pages
...world is one place — TERTULLIAH, t 2IS 7I The angels a.1l were singing out of tune And hoarse from having little else to do Excepting to wind up the sun and moon Or curb a runaway young star or two. —Lord Byron I1788-1824I They ali have wean' mouths, btight souls without a seam. And a yearning Ias...
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