Lord Byron

Amaze

The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze.

Anarch

Imperial anarchs doubling human woes.

Antique

Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques.

Approve

'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.

Array

Their long array of sapphire and of gold.

Arrowy

By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone.

Ashes

The lip of ashes, and the cheek of flame.

Assuage

The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge.

August

To mingle with a body so august.

Ave Maria

Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour !

Backward

And flies unconscious o'er each backward year.

Balk

They shall not balk my entrance.

Beat

A thousand hearts beat happily.

Bed

And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed.

Bestow

See that the women are bestowed in safety.

Bleached

Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe.

Blent

Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent.

Blight

Seared in heart and lone and blighted.

Boast

Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!

Boilingly

And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher.

Boot

What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know.

Bound

And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

Brackish

Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be.

Breath

The earthquake voice of victory, To thee the breath of life.

Breathe

There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.

Breathless

But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

Bungle

I always had an idea that it would be bungled.

Burn

Burning with high hope.

Capsize

But what if carrying sail capsize the boat?

Carnival

He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival

Carol

It was the carol of a bird.

Cautious

Cautious feeling for another's pain.

Caverned

The wolves yelled on the caverned hill.

Charnel

In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ.

Chime

Chime his childish verse.

Circle

Thy name shall circle round the gaping through.

Circus

The narrow circus of my dungeon wall.

Clank

But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank.

Classic

Give, as thy last memorial to the age, One classic drama, and reform the stage.

Clay

The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover.

Close

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

Cock

Cocked, fired, and missed his man.

Coming

Your coming days and years.

Confide

By thy command I rise or fall, In thy protection I confide.

Consent

And whispering “I will ne'er consent,” -- consented.

Contemplate

We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.

Converse

'T is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.

Core

A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.

Cranny

All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.

Crawl

The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.

Crown

Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill.

Crunch

And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.

Crystal

The blue crystal of the seas.

Curl

Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.

Dance

Shadows in the glassy waters dance.

Darkly

so softly dark and darkly pure.

Deathblow

The deathblow of my hope.

Decline

Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries.

Deepen

His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun.

deft

Let me be deft and debonair.

Defunct

The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near.

Descend

But never tears his cheek descended.

Dictatress

Earth's chief dictatress, ocean's mighty queen.

Diner-out

A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate.

Disclose

How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown!

Display

He died, as erring man should die, Without display, without parade.

Disport

Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly.

Drag

The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.

Dream

I had a dream which was not all a dream.

Drip

The light drip of the suspended oar.

Drive

The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.

Drug

With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.

Dust

Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust.

Earthquake

The earthquake voice of victory.

Effusion

The light effusions of a heedless boy.

Encouragement

To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer.

Enthrall

The bars survive the captive they enthrall.

Espial

Screened from espial by the jutting cape.

Essay

What marvel if I thus essay to sing?

Face

Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face.

Fall

He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.

Falter

And here he faltered forth his last farewell.

Farewell

Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well.

Feel

Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt.

Fertility

Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility.

Fertilize

And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain.

Field

Fields which promise corn and wine.

Find

Every mountain now hath found a tongue.

Flight

Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy.

Float

There seems a floating whisper on the hills.

Flout

Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky.

Foil

Her long locks that foil the painter's power.

Fond

Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.

From

Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts.

Furrow

Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears.

Gamesome

Gladness of the gamesome crowd.

Gape

With gaping wonderment had stared aghast.

Gather

And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry.

Glare

And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon.

Glass

Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

Gloat

In vengeance gloating on another's pain.

Grow

For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary.

Guerdon

So young as to regard men's frown or smile As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot.

Gush

The gush of springs, An fall of lofty foundains.

Headlong

Like a tower upon a headlong rock.

Heave

The heaving plain of ocean.

Heavy

But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more.

Hecatomb

More than a human hecatomb.

Hectic

It is no living hue, but a strange hectic.

Here

Thou led'st me here.

Hight

Childe Harold was he hight.

Hive

Hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Hoar

Old trees with trunks all hoar.

Home

He entered in his house -- his home no more, For without hearts there is no home.

Homily

As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies.

Hot

There was mouthing in hot haste.

Hum

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men.

Hymn

Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.

Imbrown

The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned.

Impetuous

Went pouring forward with impetuous speed.

Impregnate

The scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease.

Inanimate

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves.

Inquire

And all obey and few inquire his will.

Instill

That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill.

Joyance

Some days of joyance are decreed to all.

Junior

His junior she, by thirty years.

Knoll

For a departed being's soul The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.

Lave

His feet the foremost breakers lave.

Lay

And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain.

Lesson

To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.

Lid

Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid.

Line

Though on his brow were graven lines austere.

Lone

By a lone well a lonelier column rears.

Look

Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.

Losel

One sad losel soils a name for aye.

Maudlin

Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt.

Mercurial

A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan.

Midmost

Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past.

Mix

He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind.

Moan

Rippling waters made a pleasant moan.

More

O! That pang where more than madness lies.

Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.

Morning

Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.

Mountain

The high, the mountain majesty of worth.

Mourner

His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes.

nerveless

A kingless people for a nerveless state.

No

That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

Nympholepsy

The nympholepsy of some fond despair.

Ordain

And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom ?

Overboil

Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng.

paltry

The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Parade

Parading all her sensibility.

Parting

And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts.

Pass

Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.

Peal

And a deep thunder, peal on peal, afar.

Pegasus

Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace.

Perpetuity

A path to perpetuity of fame.

Physic

A mind diseased no remedy can physic.

Pique

Pique her, and soothe in turn.

Prefer

Three tongues prefer strange orisons on high.

Prone

Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.

Rank

Many a mountain nigh Rising in lofty ranks, and loftier still.

Rattle

'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street.

Rave

The hallowed scene Which others rave of, though they know it not.

Redress

Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?

Respire

From the mountains where I now respire.

A native of the land where I respire The clear air for a while.

Retch

Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.)

Roar

Arm! arm! it is, it is the cannon's opening roar!

Sally

The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host.

Samian

Fill high the cup with Samian wine.

Scourger

The West must own the scourger of the world.

Shame

And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.

Sheen

This town, That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.

Shirk

One of the cities shirked from the league.

Shop

He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping.

Shredless

And those which waved are shredless dust ere now.

Shrill

Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high.

Shrine

Too weak the sacred shrine guard.

Shroud

Jura answers through her misty shroud.

Simple

Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?

Smile

When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled.

Smilingness

And made despair a smilingness assume.

Soar

When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.

Society

There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

Soothe

Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing.

Spread

Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch.

Stand

The ruined wall Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.

start

At intervals some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still.

Stir

I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive.

All are not fit with them to stir and toil.

Strike

Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.

A deep sound strikes like a rising knell.

Sunless

The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep.

Sure

'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print.

Swell

Music arose with its voluptuous swell.

Sylphlike

Sometimes a dance . . . Displayed some sylphlike figures in its maze.

Temper

But thy fire Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher.

Tenant

The sister tenants of the middle deep.

Tend

The clouds above me to the white Alps tend.

Tiptoe

Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory.

Trackless

To climb the trackless mountain all unseen.

Traveled

The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen.

Turn

And all its [the river's] thousand turns disclose. Some fresher beauty varying round.

Twirl

No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.

Unman

Let's not unman each other.

Unteach

One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule.

Various

A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild.

Vie

While Waterloo with Cannae's carnage vies.

Vociferation

Plaintive strains succeeding the vociferations of emotion or of pain.

Voiceless

I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.

Volley

Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe.

Volumed

The distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll.

Voluptuous

Music arose with its voluptuous swell.

War

Our countrymen were warring on that day!

Weave

And for these words, thus woven into song.

Whet

Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak.

White

Or whispering with white lips, “The foe! They come! they come!”

Whiteness

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

Wide

For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den.

Wistful

That he who there at such an hour hath been, Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot.

Wold

And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.

Wonderwork

Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand.

Worthless

'T is a worthless world to win or lose.

Yeast

They melt thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.