Quotes from The Bride of Abydos — Lord Byron
1788–1824 England
12 quotes
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
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Hark! to the hurried question of despair:
"Where is my child?"—an echo answers, "Where?"
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Soft as the memory of buried love,
Pure as the prayer which childhood wafts above.
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace!
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Go—let thy less than woman's hand
Assume the distaff—not the brand.
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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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