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
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Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.
forever
Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
combining device good letter solitude
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
generally indeed jealousy lovers self spice
Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
bridge flying golden
I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge / Is for a flying enemy.
among shroud stood thoughts
I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
element hardly passion
Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate.
beneath hath labor shall sun
Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sun the many still must labor for the one
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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.
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