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
sleep heaven silence
All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
stars inspiration heaven
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
george heaven hundredth king last left saw
All I saw farther, in the last confusion, / Was, that King George slipped into heaven for one; / And when the tumult dwindled to a calm, / I left him practising the hundredth psalm.
law heaven earth
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
love-is heaven grove
Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
heaven merit earth
In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.
flower heaven earth
But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.
brother sight heaven
By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.
giving heaven early-death
Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
doubt heard rome stood time
I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome
alone burning rebel spirit weak
The spirit burning but unbent, / May writhe, rebel - the weak alone repent!
daily lady leave literary smug wits
The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen, I leave them to their daily ""tea is ready,"" Smug coterie and literary lady
adventure agreeable lively
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
And when we think we lead, we are most led.