The mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the scorpion girt by fire ; In circle narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive close, Till, inly... Nature - Page 301edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
| 1812 - 576 pages
...And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang,...cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire, Or live Ifke Scorpion girt by fire ; So writhes the mind by conscience... | |
| 1813 - 552 pages
...And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang,...cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like Scorpion girt by fire: So writhes the mind by conscience... | |
| 1813 - 550 pages
...And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang,...cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like Scorpion girt by fire : So writhes the mind by conseience... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, f The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang,...cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like Scorpion girt by fire ; So, writhes the mind by conscience... | |
| 1813 - 566 pages
...One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet wag vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain , And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like Scorpion girt by fire : So writhes the mind by conscience... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, 30O And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire; Or live like Scorpion gir.t... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nonrish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pair, And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire. Or live like Scorpion... | |
| Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, "Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang,...cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain.— So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like Scorpion girt by fire ; So writhes the mind Remorse hath... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1814 - 378 pages
...and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, 430 Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like Scorpion girt by fire ;17 So writhes the mind Remorse... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 222 pages
...and sole relief she knows. The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, 430 Gives but one pang, and cures all pain. And darts into her desperate brain. — So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like Scorpion girt by fire ; lf So writhes the mind Remorse... | |
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