 And this is in the night. — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing...  Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron - Page 328by George Clinton - 1828 - 756 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...— most glorious night ! Thou wert not made for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and fair delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth. 774. Sky, mountains, river,... | |
 | REV. WALTER COLTON - 1850 - 444 pages
...A sharer in your fierce and far delight,— A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit wave shines a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing...mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth." 8 CHAPTER III. EIO DE JANEIRO. BAY OF RIO. SCENERY. — ASPECT OF THE CITY. ROYAL... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 pages
...for slumber! let me he A sharer in tby far and fierce delight,— A portion of the tempest and of me! How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea, And the...rain comes dancing to the earth! And now again 'tis black,—and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth. As if they did rejoice... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 pages
...and of me! How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea, And itle big rain tomes dancing to the earth1 And now again 'tis black..— and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth. As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth, Now where the swift Rhine cleaves... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 686 pages
...which, poor as it is, is certainly preferable to the ludicrous line for which it is substituted : — ' The glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth ' ; namely, ' As they had found an heir and feasted o'er his birth.' There is one... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...Alps, who call to her aloud! хеш. And this is in the night : — Most glorious uightt Thon wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce...delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee 1 How tbe lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earthl And DOW again... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - 1996 - 166 pages
...he and Shelley were equally fascinated: And this is in the night!—Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce...rain comes dancing to the earth! And now again 'tis black,—and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...HAROLDS PILGRIMAGE: CANTO III XCIII And this is in the night: - Most glorious night! 870 Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, A portion of the tempest and of thee!1 How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth! 875... | |
 | Glenn Stanley, Lewis Lockwood, Christopher Reynolds - 1998 - 284 pages
...Lord Byron describes a nocturnal storm breaking over an alpine lake and calls on the night to let him be "A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — / A portion of the tempest and of thee," his tempest is no more transparent, no more yoked to a B. Well, they're pretty stormy, you know. S.... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - 1999 - 572 pages
...found a tongue And Jura answers thro' her misty shroud Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud." "And the big rain comes dancing to the earth And now...and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth." 263 These familiar personifications give meanness instead of sublimity to the discription... | |
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