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
expect gives later sooner
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
gives
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
coffee leave pity serious tea tis wine
Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious
although beverage born both fearful human love marriage rarely sign sober time tis vinegar wine
Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s
crave lift thee unto
Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift / My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift.
heart itself love pause soul sword wears
For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
country price raise
For what were all these country patriots born? / To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
losing men opinions rendered
For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager
barrier delight determined fierce flatter looked thirty veins work younger
I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.
cut man ship
He was the mildest mannered man / That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
loves
He who loves not his country, can love nothing
below clouds hate mountain peaks shall
He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below
brink eternity puzzling tis
Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there
bark bay brighter coming draw eye hear honest mark near sweet tis watch welcome
Tis sweet to hear the watch dogs' honest bark - Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark - Our coming and look brighter when we come