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
love life dying
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
kindness adversity not-giving-up
Adversity is the first path to truth.
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It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive- they In whom our brightest days we would retrace, Our little selves reform'd in finer clay, Just as old age is creeping on apace, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, Th
affairs god knows leads taken tide
There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where
coffee leave pity serious tea tis wine
Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious
although beverage born both fearful human love marriage rarely sign sober time tis vinegar wine
Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s
crave lift thee unto
Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift / My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift.
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
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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.
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.