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.
Beppo (1818)
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“I only know we loved in vain;
I only feel — farewell! farewell!”
Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer (1808), st. 2.
“The power of thought,—the magic of the mind!”
Canto I, stanza 8.
The Corsair (1814)
“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.
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)
George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus
Act V
Sardanapalus (1821)
Stanzas to Augusta (1816), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
St. 2.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)