 Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 95edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Cross - Europe - 1859 - 536 pages
...THE TOWER — HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CITY — ST. AMBROSE — SAN CARLO BORROMEO. Italia! 0 Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became...by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame! CUILDE HAROLD. AT eight in the evening of the same day that we left Venice, we arrived in the goodly... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...sanctifies below 6 Whate'er it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now. XLII. Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness... | |
 | Frederick William Robinson - 1859 - 360 pages
...rtsenitJ. LONDON : it. BOBN, PKIHTEB, GLOUCESTER STREET, BEGENT'S PARK. BOOK VI. " ITALIA ! oh, Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plongh'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame." BTBOH. "Oh, sir! the good die first,... | |
 | Charles M. Bain - 1859 - 192 pages
...REVIEWING THE PAINTING OP AS ITALIAN LANDSCAPE. Ilalia! oh, IUIU! than who hart The fatal ftfk of beau;, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy tweet brow U wrrow ploaeh'd by thaTO, ,%nd annala graved In characters of flame ; Oh, God ! that Ihon... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...gasps away — The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. Italia ! O Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became...by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Would that thou wert iu this thy nakedness Less lovely, or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right,... | |
 | Joseph Cross (D.D.) - 1860 - 466 pages
...Historical Sketch of the City — St. Ambrose — San Carlo Borromeo. Italia ! O Italia ! thou who host The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower...ploughed by shame, And annals graved In characters of name ! CHILDE HAROLD. AT eight in the evening of the same day that we left Venice, we arrived in the... | |
 | Joel Edson Rockwell - Europe - 1860 - 356 pages
...heart appreciated the terrible reality of Italy's oppression and suffering: " Italia ! Oh, Italia I Thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became...present woes and past ; On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame I Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 252 pages
...heauty, which hecame A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet hrow is sorrow plough'd hy shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh,...in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the rohhers hack, who press To shed thy hlood, and drink the tears... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - Europe - 1860 - 520 pages
...past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. O God 1 that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood and drink the tears... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...into the cause. He is one who shares not the despair which wrung from Byron the exclamation — "O God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful ! " for he sees the day of power coming through the wisdom and valor of Sardinia's king, parliament,... | |
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