Quote #84
He left a corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
More from Lord Byron
- No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
- She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her…
- Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word,-howe'er We promise, hope, believe,-there breathes despair.
- The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like …
- Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!
- For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
- There was a laughing devil in his sneer.
- And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!