The Works of Lord Byron Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...who makes' His life an infancy, and sings his fill;"-1 At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy--for the Starlight dews All silently their tears of Love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.1U LXXXVIII. Ye Stars which are the poetry of Heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, --'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A Beauty and a Mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That Fortune, --Fame, --Power, --Life, have named themselves a Star.2 i. He is an endless reveller.--MS. erased. ii. Him merry with light talking with his mate.--MS. erased. iii. Deep into Nature's breast the existence which they lose.--MS. 1. Compare Anacreon (Els rtrr, ya), Carm. xliii. line 15--T6 8i-ySpos 06 at Ttlpti. 2. For the association of "Fortune" and " Fame" with a star, compare stanza xi. lines 5, 6--LXXXIX. All Heaven and Earth are still--though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most;1 And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep: --All Heaven and Earth are still: From the high host Of stars, to the lulled lake and mountain-coast, All is concentered in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of Being, and a sense Of that which is of all Creator and Defence.2 "Who can contemplate Fame through clouds unfold The star which rises o'er her steep," etc.? And the allusion to Napoleon's " star," stanza xxxviii. line 9--"Nor learn that tempted Fate will leave the ...