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
devil though women
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil
loss devil sticks
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
devil scripture
History - the devil's scripture
evil devil firsts
The devil was the first democrat
thinking humanity devil
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
sleep devil employment
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
magic power thoughts-and-thinking
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
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.
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?
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