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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O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
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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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But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake
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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
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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
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In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
fate flow inward liver small
Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow
convert five four glad greater process prove sort though
I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
holiness lately miracles shall since understand
I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
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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.
fitzgerald shall tavern
Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?
admire art
Not to admire is all the art I know.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past