tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082118370777471795.post3538998537205070381..comments2023-12-25T09:35:25.628+01:00Comments on Emma Alvarez Blog: Lord Byron, A Life Full Of PassionsEmma Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02296177662378246680noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082118370777471795.post-6527939050376298982008-09-18T13:00:00.000+02:002008-09-18T13:00:00.000+02:00I have this on my blog. It's my favorite from...I have this on my blog. <br>It's my favorite from him:<br><br><b>The Tear</b><br><br><i>When Friendship or Love<br>Our sympathies move;<br>When Truth, in a glance, should appear,<br>The lips may beguile,<br>With a dimple or smile,<br>But the test of affection's a Tear:<br><br>Too oft is a smile<br>But the hypocrite's wile,<br>To mask detestation, or fear;<br>Give me the soft sigh,<br>Whilst the soultelling eye<br>Is dimm'd, for a time, with a Tear:<br><br>Mild Charity's glow,<br>To us mortals below,<br>Shows the soul from barbarity clear;<br>Compassion will melt,<br>Where this virtue is felt,<br>And its dew is diffused in a Tear:<br><br>The man, doom'd to sail<br>With the blast of the gale,<br>Through billows Atlantic to steer,<br>As he bends o'er the wave<br>Which may soon be his grave,<br>The green sparkles bright with a Tear;<br><br>The Soldier braves death<br>For a fanciful wreath<br>In Glory's romantic career;<br>But he raises the foe<br>When in battle laid low,<br>And bathes every wound with a Tear.<br><br>If, with high-bounding pride,<br>He return to his bride!<br>Renouncing the gore-crimson'd spear;<br>All his toils are repaid<br>When, embracing the maid,<br>From her eyelid he kisses the Tear.<br><br>Sweet scene of my youth!<br>Seat of Friendship and Truth,<br>Where Love chas'd each fast-fleeting year<br>Loth to leave thee, I mourn'd,<br>For a last look I turn'd,<br>But thy spire was scarce seen through a Tear:<br><br>Though my vows I can pour,<br>To my Mary no more,<br>My Mary, to Love once so dear,<br>In the shade of her bow'r,<br>I remember the hour,<br>She rewarded those vows with a Tear.<br><br>By another possest,<br>May she live ever blest!<br>Her name still my heart must revere:<br>With a sigh I resign,<br>What I once thought was mine,<br>And forgive her deceit with a Tear.<br><br>Ye friends of my heart,<br>Ere from you I depart,<br>This hope to my breast is most near:<br>If again we shall meet,<br>In this rural retreat,<br>May we meet, as we part, with a Tear.<br><br>When my soul wings her flight<br>To the regions of night,<br>And my corse shall recline on its bier;<br>As ye pass by the tomb,<br>Where my ashes consume,<br>Oh! moisten their dust with a Tear.<br><br>~George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron</i><br><br>Good stuff Emma,<br><br>~ZZGreeneyezzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07169516112778737511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082118370777471795.post-54845245374160987382008-09-18T15:31:00.000+02:002008-09-18T15:31:00.000+02:00Thank you Greeneyezz for this awesome poem of Lord...Thank you Greeneyezz for this awesome poem of Lord Byron :)Emma Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02296177662378246680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082118370777471795.post-35696658934208913792008-09-28T04:40:00.000+02:002008-09-28T04:40:00.000+02:00Hi,One of his favourite places was Sintra, here in...Hi,<br><br>One of his favourite places was Sintra, here in Portugal.<br>He spent some time there.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>JoséJoséhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08965916774046623372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082118370777471795.post-62839209211127240752008-09-28T10:10:00.000+02:002008-09-28T10:10:00.000+02:00One of the places of Portugal that I would like to...One of the places of Portugal that I would like to visit is Madeira. That awesome island of Portugal that has my favorite wine: Madeira wine or as many called it liquor of Gods.Emma Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02296177662378246680noreply@blogger.com