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
joy longer memory pain
The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
generally indeed jealousy lovers self spice
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
loudest wit
The loudest wit I e'er was deafened with.
sleep reality world
Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.
heart eagles views
So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.
daughter heart house
Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
sweet heart creation
Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.
heart break heal
Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
heart eye night
There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!
grieving bravery brave
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
country land sight
I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.
country sight land
Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!
good-night country farewell
Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!
philosophical filled-up mind
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.