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
grief past grieving
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
happiness wedding men
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
death sleep men
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
men thinking dust
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
love sex strange
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
love sex men
I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
pain ideas giving
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
pain painful payment
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
people reason possession
Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
lying people way
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
giving people mind
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
men machines answers
Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.
real reality adoration
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
sleep reality two
Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.