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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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes
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She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.
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She for him had given / Her all on earth, and more than all in heaven!
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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absolutely too - high and will go down
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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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A better farmer ne'er brushed dew from lawn, / A worse king never left a realm undone!
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Dark-heaving - boundless, endless, and sublime, / The image of eternity, the throne / Of the Invisible.
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For Freedom's battle once begun, / Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, / Though baffled oft is ever won.
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The night shows stars and women in a better light
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The nursery still lisps out in all they utter -/ Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
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A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made
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A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote,/ With just enough of learning to misquote.