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
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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
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Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
press shall thee
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, / On thee shall press no ponderous tomb.
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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Talk six times with the same single lady and you may get the wedding dress ready
dreams hath realm sleep touch wide wild
Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
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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
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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.
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The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.
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The world is a bundle of hay, / Mankind are the asses who pull; / Each tugs it a different way, / And the greatest of all is John Bull.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
And when we think we lead, we are most led.