John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5689 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5689 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | 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? 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 1. |
| Note 1. Know’st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose! Goethe: Wilhelm Meister. [back] |