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
purpose
He said / Little, but to the purpose.
daughters magic none
There be none of Beauty's daughters / With a magic like thee.
agreeable interested meet passions pleases pleasure surprises week whenever wondering
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
anxious came dead living midst shall useless
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
life man moral souls virtuous
Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life / Into that moral centaur, man and wife?
curious fool growth human love
Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the growth of human will?
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
falls rome shall stands
While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls - the World.
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