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
deep discontent fit fly hate mind nor stir
To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind: / All are not fit with them to stir and toil, / Nor is it discontent to keep the mind / Deep in its fountain.
compound deity dirt inspired mind mixed sensuality soaring
What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
altered aspect brim changes cup fire mind near soul steal vigor
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim
beauty false mind
Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, / And fevers into false creation.
views mind break-out
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
atheist believe mind
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
giving people mind
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
mind delicacy dirt
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
heart love mind peace whose
A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!
philosophical filled-up mind
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
retirement mind world
Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
pain teaching mind
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
voice giving mind
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
mind matter bishops
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.