TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can... The Works of Lord Byron - Page 152by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843Full view - About this book
| George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...'d; Darkness had no need Of aid from them— She was the Universe. V PBOMETHEU8 18.16 1816 Titan ! rth. 94 Now, whe M,he swift Rhone cleaves his w M,etween...which appear M,overs who have parted1 In ha M, B What was thy pity's recompense? A silent suffering, and intense; The rock, the vulture, and the chain,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1917 - 598 pages
...interpretation of the myth of the rebellious Titan ; the following will serve as examples : Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise; Titan! to thee the strife was given Between the suffering and the will, Which torture where they cannot... | |
| George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...tends 390 To make us what we are: — even I Regained my freedom with a sigh. PROMETHEUS (1816) Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...agony they do not show, The suffocating sense of woe, 10 Which speaks but in its loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1924 - 486 pages
...no need Of aid from them — She was the Universe. July, 1816. December 5, 1816. PROMETHEUS TITAN 1 to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do riot show, The suffocating sense of woe, Which speaks but in its loneliness, And then is jealous lest... | |
| Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1924 - 516 pages
...certain to attempt ; from boyhood he had loved it, and now it struck the peculiar personal note. " All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show, The suffocating sense of woe, 1 Mr. Arthur Symons cites, as examples of Byron's " unparalleled justness of expression. . . perfect... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...oppression. Byron and Shelley have both treated this theme. The following are Byron's lines : "Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...agony they do not show ; The suffocating sense of woe. _ \ \ '. "Thy godlike crime was to be kind; To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness,... | |
| Xavier Mayne, Edward Prime-Stevenson - Budapest (Hungary) - 1975 - 224 pages
...day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift... < A silent suffering and intense...-. All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show.... Which speaks out in its loneliness. BYROM A couple of miles out of S/ent-Istvanhely, one iinds the... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...Prometheus has become the ensample of magnanimous endurance, and of resistance to oppression. Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; 1 §§ 156, 161, 191 and Commentary, § 10. 9 From Herakles, a drama by George Cabot Lodge. The rock,... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...oppression. Byron and Shelley have both treated this theme. The following are Byron's lines: Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...agony they do not show; The suffocating sense of woe. Thy godlike crime was to be kind; To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And... | |
| George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...was Obscurity and Fame — The Glory and the Nothing of a Name. Diodati, 1816. PROMETHEUS. I TITAN 1 to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense; The rock, the voiture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show, The suffocating... | |
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