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
daily lady leave literary smug wits
The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen, I leave them to their daily ""tea is ready,"" Smug coterie and literary lady
doubt heard rome stood time
I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome
catch die immortal mean recommend
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
bank credit gold paper prefer thee unto
O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapor
beauty false mind
Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, / And fevers into false creation.
beauty friend man nor
Nor be, what man should ever be, / The friend of Beauty in distress?
dreamed greece hour looks marathon might mountains
The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea; / And musing there an hour alone, / I dreamed that Greece might yet be free.
fades native shore waters
Adieu, adieu! my native shore / Fades o'er the waters blue.
cheers east labor rest sublime west
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest
beast cannot distress hand ladies
A tigress robb'd of young, a lioness, Or any interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand for the distress Of ladies who cannot have their own way
dust form hour lay scarce serve thousand
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust
dear eyes good moves
Dear Doctor, I have read your play, / Which is a good one in its way, - / Purges the eyes and moves the bowels, / And drenches handkerchiefs like towels.
both extremely man
An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.
beast singing spoilt voice
The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.