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Title: TAMERLANE.
Rule: —————
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Stanza: 18
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Line-01-180 Upon the Siroc wither’d plain, [page 52:]
Line-01-182 And failing in thy power to bless
Line-01-183 But leav'st the heart a wilderness!
Line-01-184 Idea! which bindest life around
Line-01-185 With music of so strange a sound
Line-01-186 And beauty of so wild a birth —
Line-01-187 Farewell! for I have won the Earth!
Stanza: 19
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Line-01-188 When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see
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Line-02-188 When towering Eagle-Hope could see
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Line-01-189 [[indent]] No cliff beyond him in the sky,
Line-01-190 His pinions were bent droopingly —
Line-01-191 [[indent]] And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.
Stanza: 20
Line-01-192 ’Twas sunset: when the sun will part
Line-01-193 There comes a sullenness of heart
Line-01-194 To him who still would look upon
Line-01-195 The glory of the summer sun.
Line-01-196 That soul will hate the ev’ning mist
Line-01-197 So often lovely, and will list
Line-01-198 To the sound of the coming darkness (known
Line-01-199 To those whose spirits harken) as one
Line-01-200 Who, in a dream of night, would fly
Line-01-201 But cannot from a danger nigh. [page 53:]
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[S:0 - comparative] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Poems - Tamerlane (Study Text - ATMP-JN)