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
reading book book-reading
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
venice earth masque
Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
beautiful sea-breeze wind
My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!
believe religion miserable
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
christian religion done
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
men oracles conscience
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
shoes charity misery
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
thinking
It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
lying women wells
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
heart roving absence
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
curiosity vices lows
That low vice, curiosity!
mistake people risk
A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.
feet ballet legs
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
angel nymphs ballet
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.