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
baby rose sweetest
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
military worst tyranny
Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
men waiting quiet
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
beautiful ideas birth
Whatsoever thy birth, thou were a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.
ideas dissent shrouds
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
life years ideas
In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.
self vanity praise
Self praise is no praise at all.
giving people romance
Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
fashion clothes balls
Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.
chastity chaste pure
Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
memories light years
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
quiet human-nature serene
A quiet conscience makes one so serene.
passion heart my-heart
My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
food men apples
All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99