Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (With Byron's Biography)


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      The stanza of Spenser, according to one of our most successful poets, admits of every variety. Dr. Beattie makes the following observation:—

      London, February, 1812.

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      Not in those climes where I have late been straying,

       Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed,

       Not in those visions to the heart displaying

       Forms which it sighs but to have only dreamed,

       Hath aught like thee in Truth or Fancy seemed:

       Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek

       To paint those charms which varied as they beamed—

       To such as see thee not my words were weak;

       To those who gaze on thee what language could they speak?

      Ah! may'st thou ever be what now thou art,

       Nor unbeseem the promise of thy Spring—

       As fair in form, as warm yet pure in heart,

      Young Peri of the West!—'tis well for me

      Oh! let that eye, which, wild as the Gazelle's,

       Now brightly bold or beautifully shy,