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
Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.
heart itself love pause soul sword wears
The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
beast singing spoilt voice
The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.
age ancient care discovers forth month sends therefore true uncommon year
I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient frien
half quite
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
exchange ignorance science scientists
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
brain forth frail hath senses sent thoughts wide wild
Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide
life opinion reward vicious virtue
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.
believe constancy corn december hope ice roses seek soon trust woman
As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believe a woman or an epitaph, / Or any other thing that's false, before / You trust in critics.
confess good lived man sort sublime written
As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?
against confess court good lived man poet sort sublime written
As to ''Don Juan,'' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?
music
Comus all allows; / Champagne, dice, music or your neighbour's spouse.
car chase flying glowing hear hours joy meet pleasure rattling sleep till youth
Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind, / Or the car rattling o'er the stony street;/ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; / No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet / To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
desire greatest
The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.