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
bridge flying golden
I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge / Is for a flying enemy.
thou wisest
Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.
among shroud stood thoughts
I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
appear lady
I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
existence life love
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence
arena inhuman shout swims wretch
The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
angels curb moon singing star sun wind
The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
blue came deep purple rolls sheen spears stars wave wolf
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; / And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, / When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
deep discontent fit fly hate mind nor stir
To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind: / All are not fit with them to stir and toil, / Nor is it discontent to keep the mind / Deep in its fountain.
fly hate mankind
To fly from, need not be to hate mankind
art heart men none social true
To feel for none is the true social art of the world's stoics - men without a heart
free hereditary strike themselves
Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
homer owes
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle
deception found friend
I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.