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
love farewell vain
I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!
food apples dinner
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
statistics description damn
Damn description, it is always disgusting.
hope art majestic
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?
music men ears
There is music in all things, if men had ears.
giving joy world
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
marriage knowing unhappy
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
language speak armenians
Armenian is the language to speak with God.
age divinity decay
Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.
rocks long-ago clouds
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
dirty moral reason
A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty
sweet sea our-world
With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.
self tears claims
None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
power years shade
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.