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
lying evil coffins
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
lying maids deceit
Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!
lying agony
I see before me the gladiator lie.
lying heartless headless
By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
lying people way
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
lying women wells
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
lying loss past
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
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?