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
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.
life man moral souls virtuous
Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life / Into that moral centaur, man and wife?
life opinion reward vicious virtue
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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
existence life love
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence
love life dying
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
life
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
itself life
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
life reward vicious
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
age age-and-aging began deadliest esteem feelings grow heaviest life longer moment
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.
life years fire
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
life birthday time
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
life years ideas
In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.
life years waiting
He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.