Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can tell? not thou, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness... The Corsair - Page 5by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 55 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...From toil to rest, and joy in every change, t Oh, who can tell? not thou, luxurious slave? • Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave; < Not thou , vain lord of wantonness and ease! i Whom slumber soothes not—pleasure cannot please• Oh , who can tell, save he whose heart hath... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 pages
...range. From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can tell ? not thou, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave ; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease I Whom slumber soothesnot — pleasure cannotplease — Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can tell ? not thou, luxurious slave ! \Yhose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave ; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and case ! Whom slumber soothes not — pleasure cannot plea». Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...change. Oh, who can tell ? not (bou, luxurious slave ! \Yhose soul would sicken o'er the heaving warp ; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease ! Whom slumber soothes not — pleasure cannot pi««1. Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide.... | |
| 1838 - 204 pages
...the boy before you has been trained in the way he will go," CHAPTER XVII. " Oh, who con tell, save ho whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er...wide, The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening flay, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way t" " Have I once lived to see two honest men... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1838 - 508 pages
...range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Ob, who can tell r not thou, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave ; Not thou,...lord of wantonness and ease! Whom slumber soothes not—pleasure cannot please— Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph... | |
| 1838 - 506 pages
...range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can tell ? not thou, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave ; Not thou,...lord of wantonness and ease! Whom slumber soothes not—pleasure cannot please— Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - 1839 - 354 pages
...sailor's life, in its most favorable aspect, before me, I have been led with Byron to exclaim — " Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph, o'er the water wide, The exulting sense, the pulse's mad'ning play, That thrills the wand'rer of the trackless... | |
| John Marshall - 1839 - 152 pages
...we felt the full force of the beautiful lines of Byron : — " ' O ! who can tell, hnt he whose soul hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense, the pulse's madd'ning play That thrills the wanderer of that stormy way)' " Monday, 1 Oth. — Wind, south-west... | |
| John William Carleton - 1855 - 528 pages
...expedition, pointing out the delights of the sea, and quoting Byron's beautiful lines upon the subject — " Oh ! who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in trinmph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense, the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer... | |
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