The Deluge: A Drama, in Twelve ScenesSaunders and Otley, 1839 - 151 pages |
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... forgot those hours which were The sunniest of my life : those days of peace , And hope , and innocence , when my young heart Sought nothing further than its earthly joys . When no vague hopes , no restless wishes were Awakened , leaving ...
... forgot those hours which were The sunniest of my life : those days of peace , And hope , and innocence , when my young heart Sought nothing further than its earthly joys . When no vague hopes , no restless wishes were Awakened , leaving ...
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... thoughts , and hopes , Are shook from it like leaves , but soon to pass Away , and be forgotten . Urge no more— Look not thus on me - leave me for a while . IRAD . And what are these disturbing thoughts ? what CENE II . ] 5 THE DELUGE .
... thoughts , and hopes , Are shook from it like leaves , but soon to pass Away , and be forgotten . Urge no more— Look not thus on me - leave me for a while . IRAD . And what are these disturbing thoughts ? what CENE II . ] 5 THE DELUGE .
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... forgotten . What hath my love taught me ? The lightness of the human heart , and most Of hers , I once thought so unchangeable . And broken hopes , and failing strength , are all The fruits which I have gathered from its tree : My ...
... forgotten . What hath my love taught me ? The lightness of the human heart , and most Of hers , I once thought so unchangeable . And broken hopes , and failing strength , are all The fruits which I have gathered from its tree : My ...
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... forgot those hours which were The sunniest of my life : those days of peace , And hope , and innocence , when my young heart Sought nothing further than its earthly joys . When no vague hopes , no restless wishes were Awakened , leaving ...
... forgot those hours which were The sunniest of my life : those days of peace , And hope , and innocence , when my young heart Sought nothing further than its earthly joys . When no vague hopes , no restless wishes were Awakened , leaving ...
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... thoughts , and hopes , Are shook from it like leaves , but soon to pass Away , and be forgotten . Urge no more- Look not thus on me - leave me for a while . IRAD . And what are these disturbing thoughts ? what CENE II . ] 5 THE DELUGE .
... thoughts , and hopes , Are shook from it like leaves , but soon to pass Away , and be forgotten . Urge no more- Look not thus on me - leave me for a while . IRAD . And what are these disturbing thoughts ? what CENE II . ] 5 THE DELUGE .
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agony Angels Arethusa ASTARTE Astarte's AZOARA azure beauty Behold beneath bosom breath bright bright eyes brow Childe Harold clouds crags death deep despair destiny doom dost thou doth dreadful dreams dwell earth earthly eternity eyes fate fear feel felt forgot gazing glory grave grey crags HAMMON hand happiness hath hear heard heaven heavenly Hermon hide hope hour human hurled idolatry immortal IRAD ISRAPHIL Italy kneel leave light living look Lord Byron mind mingled mortal Mount Hermon mountain Nature NEREIDS never NOAH o'er ORAZIEL passion Poem Poet prescience pride rest round SCENE shadow sigh sink Sister Solitude soul sound sound of Melody spirit Stars stood Sunne sweet thee thine things thou art thou dost thou hast thou should'st thoughts throne thunder truth turned twilight Voice walked watched Waters weak wild wild passion wilt words worship wrath
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Page 131 - The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had her haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 108 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 107 - The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Page 131 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Page 109 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime...
Page 71 - Or seems to grieve above them ! / shall pass, And die unknown : — lost — buried in the mass Of a departed World ; I shall not rest On the sweet pillow of some human breast : I shall not hear the soothing sympathies Of human love ! the silent speaking eyes Whose feeling found no vent in words, but made Their silence, more than eloquence, pervade The answering spirit; until even to die Became but slumber's last tranquillity...
Page 113 - They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs that had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between ; — But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 70 - The love, the life, the beauty whicli there dwells ; The stars that seemed like God's own oracles. Making me feel, while gazing on each shrine, Although they spoke not, that their homes were mine ! Farewell the twilight imaging that heaven 1 never now shall see : and my own flowers, Mingling their sweet breath with my own ; Gladdening the earth with their bright eyes, which I Have loved as living things, and felt, Watching them in my solitary hours, They were my heart s companions given — That...
Page 69 - ... fire-eyed resolution of Ozoara. Mark how this opposition is brought out towards the closing scene, where the sisters with the angels stand on Mount Hermon prepared to die. The following outbreak of natural regrets is from the lips of Astarte, whose nature quails before the coming ruin. " Farewell, 0 thou dear earth, that I have loved so well ! Farewell the dim and leafy places, where These eyes first opened to the azure air, And drank in all the glories of the day, Stamped in my heart, that cannot...
Page 71 - A blessing — on my loved one's breast reclined, Feeling I felt my love, my life behind ! Oh, that I thus had died, and never known Love's desolating passion ! but had flown Lightly from earth as gossamer doth rise, Serenely wafted to the twilight skies : Or slumbered like the violet unseen, Known only by its breath that it had been ! While human eyes and human hearts had found My grave, and sanctified the holy ground With tears drawn from the memories of love...