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
thou wisest
Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.
brink eternity puzzling tis
Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there
bark bay brighter coming draw eye hear honest mark near sweet tis watch welcome
Tis sweet to hear the watch dogs' honest bark - Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark - Our coming and look brighter when we come
devil though women
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil
darkness glance great mutual passed though
Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness.
homer owes
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle
arrange focus moment themselves thoughtful thoughts wildest
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
rob strips women
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
life
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
cannot sincerity
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
itself life
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
butler daughters grow run wives
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
men
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.