rest of the poems

She walks in beauty, like the night skywalk er"

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

"Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

And all that’s best of dark and bright"

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

"Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

Thus mellowed to that tender light"

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

"One shade the more, one ray the less,

"One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace"

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

"Which waves in every raven tress,

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

Or softly lightens o’er her face;"

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

"Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

How pure, how dear their dwelling -place."

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

"So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,"

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

"But tell of days in goodness spent,

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

A mind at peace with all below,"

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

A heart whose love is innocent!

She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron

I had a dream, which was not all a dream."

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars

Darkness – Lord Byron

Did wander darkling in the eternal space,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth

Darkness – Lord Byron

Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Morn came and went —and came, and brought no day,

Darkness – Lord Byron

And men forgot their passions in the dread"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Of this their desolation; and all hearts

Darkness – Lord Byron

Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"And they did live by watchfires —and the thrones,

Darkness – Lord Byron

The palaces of crowned kings —the huts,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The habitations of all things which dwell,

Darkness – Lord Byron

Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"And men were gather'd round their blazing homes

Darkness – Lord Byron

To look once more into each other's face;"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Happy were those who dwelt within the eye

Darkness – Lord Byron

Of the volcanos, and their mountain -torch:"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"A fearful hope was all the world contain'd;

Darkness – Lord Byron

Forests were set on fire —but hour by hour"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"They fell and faded —and the crackling trunks

Darkness – Lord Byron

Extinguish'd with a crash —and all was black."

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The brows of men by the despairing light

Darkness – Lord Byron

Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The flashes fell upon them; some lay down

Darkness – Lord Byron

And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd;

Darkness – Lord Byron

And others hurried to and fro, and fed"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up

Darkness – Lord Byron

With mad disquietude on the dull sky, The pall of a past world; and then again"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"With curses cast them down upon the dust,

Darkness – Lord Byron

And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"shriek'd pinea ple

Darkness – Lord Byron

And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes

Darkness – Lord Byron

Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl'd"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"And twin'd themselves among the multitude,

Darkness – Lord Byron

Hissing, but stingless —they were slain for food."

Darkness – Lord Byron

"And War, which for a moment was no more,

Darkness – Lord Byron

Did glut himself again: a meal was bought"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"With blood, and each sate sullenly apart

Darkness – Lord Byron

Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"All earth was but one thought —and that was death

Darkness – Lord Byron

Immediate and inglorious; and the pang"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Of famine fed upon all entrails —men

Darkness – Lord Byron

Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The meagre by the meagre were devour'd,

Darkness – Lord Byron

Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"And he was faithful to a corse, and kept

Darkness – Lord Byron

The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead

Darkness – Lord Byron

Lur'd their lank jaws; himself sought out no food,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"But with a piteous and perpetual moan,

Darkness – Lord Byron

And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Which answer'd not with a caress —he died.

Darkness – Lord Byron

The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Of an enormous city did survive,

Darkness – Lord Byron

And they were enemies: they met beside"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The dying embers of an altar -place

Darkness – Lord Byron

Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"For an unholy usage; they rak'd up,

Darkness – Lord Byron

And shivering scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath

Darkness – Lord Byron

Blew for a little life, and made a flame"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Which was a mockery; then they lifted up

Darkness – Lord Byron

Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Each other's aspects —saw, and shriek'd, and died —

Darkness – Lord Byron

Even of their mutual hideousness they died,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Unknowing who he was upon whose brow

Darkness – Lord Byron

Famine had written Fiend. The world was void,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The populous and the powerful was a lump,

Darkness – Lord Byron

Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless —"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"A lump of death —a chaos of hard clay.

Darkness – Lord Byron

The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths;

Darkness – Lord Byron

Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd

Darkness – Lord Byron

They slept on the abyss without a surge —"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,

Darkness – Lord Byron

The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,

Darkness – Lord Byron

And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need"

Darkness – Lord Byron

"Of aid from them —She was the Universe.

Darkness – Lord Byron