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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?
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The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.
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But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.
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As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.
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Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider.
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With flowing tail and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouth bloodless to bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod,
A thousand horses - the wild - the free -
Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on.
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
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Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls—the World.
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The moon is up, and yet it is not night;
Sunset divides the sky with her—a sea
Of glory streams along the Alpine height
Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free
From clouds, but of all colours seems to be
Melted to one vast Iris of the West,
Where the day joins the past eternity.
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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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None are so desolate but something dear,
Dearer than self, possesses or possessed
A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
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But life will suit
Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit,
Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore,
All ashes to the taste.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs:
A palace and a prison on each hand.
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A ruin—yet what ruin! from its mass
Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared.
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Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty.
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All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.
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Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
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Adieu, adieu! my native shore
Fades o'er the waters blue.
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Might shake the saintship of an anchorite.
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Oh! that the desert were my dwelling place.
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Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow—
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
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Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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The beings of the mind are not of clay;
Essentially immortal, they create And multiply in us a brighter ray And more beloved existence.
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Born:
January 22, 1788
Died:
April 19, 1824
(aged 36)
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