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But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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In Adam's fall--
We sinned all.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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Young Timothy
Learnt sin to fly.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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Where bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Topic: Slavery
Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington
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Now in his Palace of the West,
Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,
Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest,
'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay;
While round his couch's golden rim
The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept--
Struggling each other's light to dim,
And catch his last smile e'er he slept.
Topic: Sunset
Source: The Summer Fete (st. 22)
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There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
Topic: Swearing
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
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To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.
Topic: Tomorrow
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem--Song
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Oh, colder than the wind that freezes
Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,
Is that congealing pang which seizes
The trusting bosom, when betray'd.
Topic: Treachery
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers
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Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might!
Topic: Treachery
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers
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Then should some cloud pass over
The brow of sire or lover,
Think 'tis the shade
By Victory made
Whose wings right o'er us hover!
Topic: Victory
Source: Battle Song
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Hath the pearl less whiteness
Because of its birth?
Hath the violet less brightness
For growing near earth?
Topic: Violets
Source: Desmond's Song
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Steals timidly away,
Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
Topic: Violets
Source: Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Remember Thee
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I am nothing and to nothing tend,
On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,
Man's noblest works must have one common end,
And nothing crown the tablet of his name.
Topic: Work
Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
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Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession
until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double
allowance.
Topic: Work
Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
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Together kneeling, night and day,
Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine,
And I--at any God's for thine.
Topic: Worship
Source: Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (fourth division, l. 309)
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