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
beast cannot distress hand ladies
A tigress robb'd of young, a lioness, Or any interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand for the distress Of ladies who cannot have their own way
play hands age
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
time hands hours
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
fall ambition hands
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
hands assuming contempt
Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.
coffee thinking hands
And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.
men hands may
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
hands bridges venice
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.
hands years land
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
kissing hands gentleman
For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
dislike draw general last literary men praised
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.
love loves others scholars-and-scholarship woman
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.