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
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Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.
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Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
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I live not in myself, but I become / Portion of that around me; and to me / High mountains are a feeling, but the hum / Of human cities torture.
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I have met with most poetry on trunks; so that I am pat to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship
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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
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What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
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When we two parted / In silence and tears,/ Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew thy cheek and cold, / Colder thy kiss;/ Truly that hour foretold / Sorrow to this.
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There be none of Beauty's daughters / With a magic like thee.
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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life / Into that moral centaur, man and wife?
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Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the growth of human will?
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls - the World.