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" KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime... "
The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 408
1844
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Lord Byron's Works, Volumes 1-2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 486 pages
...AND RESPECT, BY HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGED AND SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. CANTO I. I. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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The Giaour

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 468 pages
...AND RESPECT, BY HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGEl) AND SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. CANTO I. I. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture — the love of the turtle — Now...
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L'amoroso. Il politico, ch.1-5

Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby - 1825 - 326 pages
...paragraph taken from Goethe by Byron, which forms the commencing stanzas of the Bride of Abydos : — " Know ye the land, where the cypress and myrtle, Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime-- Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint...
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A general critical grammar of the Inglish language, on a system novel and ...

Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...the latter is terminated by a Trochee; the preceding foot is an Iambus ; the other feet are Anapests. Know ye the land where the cypress, and myrtle Are emblems of deeds which are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical ..., Volumes 5-6

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 1016 pages
...REGARD AND RESPECT, RY HIS GRATEFULLY ORLIGED AMD SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. CANTO I. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 1

1814 - 684 pages
...be passed over in silence. A striking example of this occurs in the four first introductory lines. " Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime — Where the rage of the vulture — the love of the turtle, Now...
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The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J ...

John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...lines. They are now, we believe, very generally ascribed to the late Rev. C. Wolfe. Modern Greece. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 4-5

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1826 - 466 pages
...REGARD AND RESPECT, BT HIS GRATEFUt.tY OBt.IGED AND SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. A TURKISH TALE. CANTO I. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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Specimens of the Novelists and Romancers: With Critical and Biographical ...

1827 - 446 pages
...recognise as having been imitated by Lord Byron, in his well known introduction to the Bride of Abydos — Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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The Poetical Melange

1828 - 814 pages
...'Tis fitting for a broken heart, And falsehood cannot roach thee there. WD FROM THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ; Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melts...
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