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
ocean men sea
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
change stars men
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
sympathy bird tree
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee
earthquakes imagination poetry
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
peace solitude mark
Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!
fire ashes
I am ashes where once I was fire...
men virtue crime
He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)
war heart eye
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
long evil strange
I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.
thinking ink may
A drop of ink may make a million think.
hate heart passion
There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.
pain teaching mind
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
ocean thrones slime
The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
wine may soda
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain