...chin dramatically. She then regarded him, her eyes suddenly glazed. "It's my look of cosmic disdain." The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the...suffocating sense of woe, Which speaks but in its lowliness, And then is jealous, lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice...

...(1816) opens with a passionate address to the god, who alone took pity on mankind's suffering: Titan! To whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality...that gods despise; What was thy pity's recompense? (1-5) What, Byron asks, did Prometheus get in return for his compassionate efforts on behalf of mankind?...

...Byron was not ever the champion of noisy miseries and talkative despair, but could feel the power of " Silent suffering, and intense ; . The rock, the vulture,...but in its loneliness, And then is jealous, lest the iky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoltss." Hope and joy, to this stern...

...PROMETHEUS. Lord Byron has also written on the same theme. The following are his lines : " Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity' s recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture and the chain ; All that...

...interpretation of the myth of the rebellious Titan ; the following will serve as examples : Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise; Titan! to thee the strife was given Between the suffering and the will, Which torture where they cannot...

...Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord ! PROMETHEUS. i. TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as tilings that gods despise : What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense; The rock,...