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
differ dress hardly manners smoothed society
Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress
bored bores formed mighty polished society
Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored
opening
Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
ages bounds changes except lapse man stars
The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
attain fear land plenty shore
The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.
fools fools-and-foolishness satire
I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
aloud cheek cried flattered loved nor patient rank worship
I have not loved the world, nor the world me; / I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed / To its idolatries a patient knee, / Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud / In worship of an echo.
doubt negroes philosophy
The negroes more philosophy displayed, - / Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed.
But Tom's no more - and so no more of Tom.
bright casts grand illusions mistake skin snake strips time
But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake
heart skies soft soul sunny within
Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies
beauty courage man possessed strength vices virtues
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
course great keys spiritual
He pattered with his keys at a great rate, / And sweated through his apostolic skin: / Of course his perspiration was but ichor, / Or some such other spiritual liquor.
greet meet silence tears thee
If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears