Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
altered aspect brim changes cup fire mind near soul steal vigor
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim
against freedom thy
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
magic power thoughts-and-thinking
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
cheek colder grew half hour pale silence sorrow thy truly
When we two parted / In silence and tears,/ Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew thy cheek and cold, / Colder thy kiss;/ Truly that hour foretold / Sorrow to this.
affairs god knows leads taken tide
There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where
rob strips women
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
life
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
cannot sincerity
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
itself life
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
butler daughters grow run wives
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
men
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
life reward vicious
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
detest far haste longest love men
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.