Stanza 34; this can be compared to: "My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain", Miguel de Cervantes, The Little Gypsy.
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“I only know we loved in vain;
I only feel — farewell! farewell!”
Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer (1808), st. 2.
“Yet in my lineaments they trace
Some features of my father's face.”
Parisina, Stanza 13, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.”
A Sketch, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half brokenhearted,
To sever for years.”
When We Two Parted (1808), stanza 1.
“She walks the waters like a thing of life,
And seems to dare the elements to strife.”
Canto I, stanza 3.
The Corsair (1814)
“Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!”
Maid of Athens http://readytogoebooks.com/MOA43.htm, st. 1 (1810).
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, st. 10.
“O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.”
Stanza 80.
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Mazeppa http://readytogoebooks.com/MZP21.htm (1819), stanza 9.
“The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.”
St. 1.
The Age of Bronze (1823)
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Cain
Cain (1821), Act I, sc. i.
Act V
Sardanapalus (1821)
Stanzas to Augusta (1816), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood.”
The Prisoner of Chillon, st. 8.
“Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto,
Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.”
Stanza 32.
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St. 2.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)