Cruel Cerinthus! does the fell disease i
Which racks my breast your fickle bosom please?
Alas! I wish'd but to o'ercome the pain,
That I might live for Love and you again;
But, now, I scarcely shall bewail my fate:
By Death alone I can avoid your hate.
Footnote i:
'does this fell disease'.
. 'P. on V. Occasions.
The Question and Answer section for Lord Byron’s Poems is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
“She Walks in Beauty” is written in iambic tetrameter, “a meter commonly found in hymns and associated with ‘sincerity’ and ‘simplicity’” (Moran 2). Byron’s chosen meter conveys to the reader both his purity of intent (there is but one subject for...
In the poem, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Byron notes that even though great civilizations decline, their art and literature remain behind.
Byron wrote “Darkness” in July-August 1816. The poem is at least partly influenced by the mass hysteria of the time brought about by an Italian astronomer’s prediction that the sun would burn itself out on July 18th, thus destroying the world. The...
