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
doubt steps thee
And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
sunset space clouds
Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
age towers marathon
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
art men long-ago
Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?
love-is heaven grove
Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
political vengeance enough
Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
departed immortal fallen
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!
time thinking calendars
Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.
humorous law government
There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
men imagination optical-illusions
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
dream mistake men
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
vanity bravery
The French courage proceeds from vanity
hero writing men
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
echoes world knees
I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.