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
blow free strike themselves
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow
downright eating infancy life remains summer
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
custom false found gem great scale surface truth weighed whilst
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom
almost pleasure woe
With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe
altered aspect brim changes cup fire mind near soul steal vigor
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim
against freedom thy
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
explaining nation wish
Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.
inform ladies lords oh truly
But oh ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly - have they not henpecked you all
apples ashes dead detested itself life suit taste
But Life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit, Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste
baffled battle bleeding oft though
For Freedom's battle once begun, / Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, / Though baffled oft is ever won.
eternity image throne
Dark-heaving - boundless, endless, and sublime, / The image of eternity, the throne / Of the Invisible.
light night shows stars women
The night shows stars and women in a better light
bread nursery smell utter
The nursery still lisps out in all they utter -/ Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
convincing dear eye
Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!