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
beneath rock shock sink
Better to sink beneath the shock than molder piecemeal on the rock
err shine
Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
freedom
Even I / Regained my freedom with a sigh.
Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.
born happiness joy share
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
compound deity dirt inspired mind mixed sensuality soaring
What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
brain forth frail hath senses sent thoughts wide wild
Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide
life opinion reward vicious virtue
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
believe constancy corn december hope ice roses seek soon trust woman
As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believe a woman or an epitaph, / Or any other thing that's false, before / You trust in critics.
confess good lived man sort sublime written
As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?
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As to ''Don Juan,'' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?
music
Comus all allows; / Champagne, dice, music or your neighbour's spouse.
car chase flying glowing hear hours joy meet pleasure rattling sleep till youth
Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind, / Or the car rattling o'er the stony street;/ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; / No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet / To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
desire greatest
The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.