Werner A Tragedy Author:Baron George Gordon Byron Byron General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1823 Original Publisher: H.C. Carey and I. Lea Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR... more » reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: WERNER; OR, THE INHERITANCE. ACT I. SCENE I. The Hall of a decayed Palace near a small Town on the northern Frontier of Silesia -- the Night tempestuous. Werner and Josephine his wife. JOSEPHINE. Mt love, be calmer! WERNER. I am calm. JOSEPHINE. To me -- Yes, but not to thyself: thy pace is hurried, And no one walks a chamber like to ours With steps like thine when his heart is at rest. Were it a garden, I should deem thee happy, And stepping with the bee from flower to flower ; But here ! WERNER. 'Tis chill; the tapestry lets through The wind to which it waves : my blood is frozen. JOSEPHINE. Ah, no! Werner (smiling). Why ! wouldst thou have it so ? JOSEPHWE. I would Have it a healthful current. WERNER. Let it flow Until 'tis spilt or check'd -- how soon, I care not. JOSEPHINE. And am I nothing in thy heart ? WERNER. All -- all. JOSEPHINE. Then canst thou wish for that which must break mine? Werner (approaching her slowly). But for thee 1 had been -- no matter what, But much of good and evil; what I am, Thou knowest; what I might or should have been, Thou knowest not: but still I love thee, nor Shall aught divide us. [werner walks on abruptly, and then ap- proaches Josephine. The storm of the night, Perhaps, affects me ; I'm a thing of feelings, And have of late been sickly, as, alas! Thou know'st by sufferings more than mine, ...« less