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Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying by Lord Byron | Poetry Reading



Welcome to my poetry reading of 'Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying' by Lord Byron (1806). Do you have a favourite Byron poem?


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Animula vagula blandula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animula_vagula_blandula


Animula! vagula, Blandula,

Hospes, comesque corporis,

Quæ nunc abibis in Loca--

Pallidula, rigida, nudula,

Nec, ut soles, dabis Jocos?


'Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying' by Lord Byron


Ah! gentle, fleeting, wav'ring Sprite,

Friend and associate of this clay!

To what unknown region borne,

Wilt thou, now, wing thy distant flight?

No more with wonted humour gay,

But pallid, cheerless, and forlorn.


(Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8861/8861-h/8861-h.htm#section17)

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