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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
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Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
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Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, / On thee shall press no ponderous tomb.
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
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Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?
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Not to admire is all the art I know.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past
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The world is a bundle of hay, / Mankind are the asses who pull; / Each tugs it a different way, / And the greatest of all is John Bull.
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That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
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Talk six times with the same single lady and you may get the wedding dress ready
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We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
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Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think
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Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.