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
dance glowing aquarius
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
men alone-man vanity
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
and-love drink nickels
Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel
wonder hours tales
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
quiet hell bosoms
But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
wings quiet distraction
This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
names noble england
I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
tired men world
But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
men ancient holy
If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.
advice good-advice
Good but rarely came from good advice.
spiritual soul-and-body imagine
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.
truth names fire
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
war adversity fate
...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
night slumber prom
Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!