 Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a deathbed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its...  Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside - Page 3251854Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1833 - 372 pages
...its track Charming the eye with dread — a matchless cataract. Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge An Iris sits, — amidst the infernal surge — Like...around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene [ts brilliant hues, with all their beams unshorn, Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Lone watching... | |
 | Adam Fergusson - Canada - 1833 - 404 pages
...strains would his muse have sung, when, in praise of Terni, he describes in those beautiful lines, how " An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge Like Hope upon a deathbed, and unworn K 146 A CANADIAN SPRING DAY. The title of horse-shoe is becoming every year less appropriate, from... | |
 | University of Cambridge - College verse - 1833 - 258 pages
...Vexula pendent, et Zephyros vocant, Frustraque perjuram requirit Gracia Dardaniae juventam. v. 81.] " An Iris sits amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed." Hinc Thraces, Ulinc Myrmidonum fremunt Clausae cohortes, hine graditur ferox 1O Vultuque Pelides minaci... | |
 | English poetry - 1834 - 340 pages
...eye with dread,— a matchless cataract — Horribly beautiful 1 but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An iris sits, amidst...beams unshorn Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, L.OVC watching madness with unalterable mien. CENSHRE. Who deserve. Instructive Satire, true... | |
 | William Brockedon - Greece - 1834 - 380 pages
...eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst...beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien." Childe Harold, canto iv. st. 69-72. " I saw,"... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Gibraltar - 1834 - 656 pages
...eye with dread, — a matchless cataract. Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits,* amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-betl, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene... | |
 | 1835 - 404 pages
...eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst...beams unshorn; Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien." piece of Richardson. The virtues, the sufferings,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, (2) Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady...beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. (1) I saw the " Cascata del marmore " of Terni... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - Switzerland - 1836 - 374 pages
...in the hues, not in the degree, of its magnificence. Then — " Upon the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed." The isolated rocky pillars, by which the river is divided into a triple fall, seem as entirely cut... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 828 pages
...with dread, — a matchless cataract, 72. Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst...beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. 73. Once more upon the woody Apenninc, The infant... | |
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