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
wine blood sight
The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.
pain hate add
I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.
law cities
Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!
grief and-love apparel
Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
phoenix fire glory
Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.
death sunset may
What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
freedom blow arms
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
sausage bologna pope
Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.
nations
The Niobe of nations! there she stands.
regret eye kissing
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
heaven merit earth
In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.
moon air wind
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.
men bird parent
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
past prophet
The best prophet of the future is the past.