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
christian gains nothing-to-lose
The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.
dwelling-place desert spirit
Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister
ocean struggle men
It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.
said persons living-on
Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
hands years land
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
mistake snakes skins
Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
laughter laughing may
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
war knives cry
War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
military solitude carnage
He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
ocean mountain altars
My altars are the mountains and the ocean.
world depth truth-is
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
vineyards cellars
The very best of vineyards is the cellar
art men lasts
In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
ends difficult
Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.