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
life birthday time
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
track steps glory
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
wisdom intelligence sage
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
family children home
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
funny stupidity literature
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
tears literature form
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
literature fortune all-things
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
hope truth pain
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
death desire certain
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
loneliness solitude feelings
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
music men ears
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.
retirement mind world
Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
thinking appearance
Think not I am what I appear.
greatness men broke
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.