The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes |
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SPENSERIAN.
[Thou, Byron, wast—like him, the iron-crown'd—]
Thou, Byron, wast—like him, the iron-crown'd—Thought-stricken, scorch'd, and “old in middle age.”
“All-naked feeling's” restless victims bound,
Ill could renown your secret pangs assuage.
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Both unbeloved, both peerless, both exil'd,
And prison'd both, though one could choose his cage;
Dying, he call'd, in vain, on wife and child;
And in your living hearts, the worm was domiciled.
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