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
gone lasts dolphins
Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.
wisdom years exhausting
Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.
dream gone athens
Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
lying agony
I see before me the gladiator lie.
soul domes palaces
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
men soul whiteness
He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.
time feelings torture
There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.
brother sight heaven
By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.
lying heartless headless
By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
beauty air
Fills The air around with beauty.
beauty
Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.
love cold lost
The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!
love world
I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
love one-love sigh
Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.