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
passion please-me goes-on
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
flower years rose
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year.
grief flower yellow
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!
sports player games
The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
money cry week
I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
money lamps aladdins-lamp
Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
time hands hours
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
hypocrite hypocrisy smooth
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
fall ambition hands
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
art army views
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
ocean sea boat
My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
ocean past men
Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."
loneliness solitude should
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
country corn vote
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?