Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ;^ 4^ ^f ?S*> ?^^^ LORD —1824. Tins great genius and most unhappy man began life by writingllie verses to be expected of a young man of quality, tillsuddenly he found the talisman, and rose among the eagles ofthe higher order. Abandoned in morals, .a voluntary exile, thevictim of his own vices and his own gigantic vanity, wallowingin the lowest vices of Venice, Byron, in the last years of his life,laid aside his cynical and ribald poem to give hi
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ;^ 4^ ^f ?S*> ?^^^ LORD —1824. Tins great genius and most unhappy man began life by writingllie verses to be expected of a young man of quality, tillsuddenly he found the talisman, and rose among the eagles ofthe higher order. Abandoned in morals, .a voluntary exile, thevictim of his own vices and his own gigantic vanity, wallowingin the lowest vices of Venice, Byron, in the last years of his life,laid aside his cynical and ribald poem to give his heart and soulto Greece, and to die in her cause. He did not merely />(>schimself for a patriot: he was one truly; and he left the worldgloritied by that single self-sacrifice. SHE WALKS IN * She walks in beauty, like tlie night Of cloudless climes and starry skies,And all thats best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the lessHad half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tressOr so
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