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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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
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In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
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I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
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The glory and the nothing of a name
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The castle crag of Drachenfels / Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine.
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The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one!
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All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
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All is to be feared where all is to be lost
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All I saw farther, in the last confusion, / Was, that King George slipped into heaven for one; / And when the tumult dwindled to a calm, / I left him practising the hundredth psalm.
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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner
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A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!
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And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.