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
sadness tales saddest
Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
fall rome world
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.
winning despair might
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
heart gold vices
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
real greek doubt
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.
passion names magic
I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.
morality johnson rough
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
law heaven earth
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
flower wine eye
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.
salt refinement expenses
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.
forget eternity thee
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
romance
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
ignorance knowledge kind
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
long doubt quiet
I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.