#Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

[hyperions-fate]

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

[strongheartmaid]

Ishmael, for the love of all that’s holy - if you’re going to quote Byron, fucking quote him properly! Your version:

 “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!      Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.”

The correct version from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:

CLXXIX

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!

  Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain

Although, now that I’m reading that full stanza - you’re doing more foreshadowing, aren’t you?

the full stanza:

CLXXIX.

  Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!   Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;   Man marks the earth with ruin—his control   Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain   The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain   A shadow of man's ravage, save his own,   When for a moment, like a drop of rain,   He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

[sucre333]

Antigua ciudad, Augusta Atenas! dónde están tus nobles ciudadanos, tus almas heroicas? Pasaron para no volver... Únicamente se nos aparecen cuando soñamos en tiempos remotos. Fueron los primeros que recorrieron el camino que conducía la gloria; llegaron a la meta; el mundo sólo les contempló un momento... Y, qué más hicieron?Sus hazañas constituyen los relatos de nuestras escuelas, causando nuestra sorpresa durante horas y horas...En vano buscamos las armas de tus guerreros y el banco de los sofistas por encima de las ruinas de tus torres, ennegrecidas por la niebla de las edades, planea la pálida sombra de tu grandeza.

(Canto segundo, II, Las peregrinaciones de Childe Harold de Lord Byron)

[shimyereh]

Some pretty covers from editions of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

(1869, 1900, 1856, 1855)

[muadweeb]

HAROLD IN CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE BY LORD BYRON

ROBERT BARATHEON IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE BY GEORGE R R MARTIN

[theboundprometheus]



aah byron, the queen of all drama queens.

[blackhyena]

George Gordon, Lord Byron, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', canto III.

[faunary]

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on:

Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, Stanza 32

[hyperions-fate]

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto IV)

[emoboybattle]

Has anyone else submitted that guy whose name I forget by Lord Byron? The first brooding sadboy in history?

Harold from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Manfred from Manfred each have 1 submission!

[ishalldreamforevermore]

[burningvelvet]

36 chapters into moby dick. some thoughts:

- take a shot every time he expresses his love for nantucket or whaling trivia

- i know everyone said it was queer and usually i've come to expect that as hyperbole but this time they weren't joking

- CHILDE HAROLD REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?! BYRON QUOTED?!?!?!?! not surprised bc it is the romantic genre which byron & chp helped inspire & he was the best selling writer in early 19c usa & is noted for his oceanic refs & he & esp childe harolds pilgrimage esp are both noted on wikipedia's "nautical fiction" page but like. i had no idea they were immortalized in moby dick

- "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

- does gay cannibal tumblr know about queequeg & ishmael?

- utterly obsessed with captain ahab for numerous reasons but does anyone else notice how similar he is to captain flint from black sails? like he's literally him but a bit older & combined with silver's leglessness.

- the part where ahab calls stubb a dog lmao

- ishmael getting worried for queequeg when he couldn't find him omg...

- "Where's that girl ? — there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with — 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' — might as well kill both birds at once." MRS. HUSSEY!!!!

- i'm sure that all the focus on queequegs spirituality & his consultation with his god yojo wherein he was informed that ishmael had to pick their boat bc yojo demaded it TOTALLY won't prove to have any prophetic and symbolic consequences later on or anything

- love how the chapters are nice and short but on the flip side that means theyre tricking me into thinking i have less to go than i actually do... as long as i get more ahab i'm good i guess

-melville, at random: and now we take a break from our regularly schedule programming to give you . . . WHALE FACTS! [whips out multiple books on the history of whales and whaling, begins to recite]

[funeral]

Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage — Canto IV

[blackhyena]

George Gordon, Lord Byron, ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, canto III.

[spookyscribe]

But in Man's dwellings he became a thing

Restless and worn, and stern and wearisome,

Droop'd as a wild-born falcon with clipt wing,

To whom the boundless air alone were home:

Then came his fit again, which to o'ercome,

As eagerly the barr'd-up bird will beat

His breast and beak against his wiry dome

Till the blood tinge his plumage, so the heat

Of his impeded soul would through his bosom eat.

— Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto The Third,

XV, by George Gordon Lord Byron