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
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?
beneath hath labor shall sun
Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sun the many still must labor for the one
below clouds hate mountain peaks shall
He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below
holiness lately miracles shall since understand
I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
falls rome shall stands
While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls - the World.
fitzgerald shall tavern
Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?
press shall thee
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, / On thee shall press no ponderous tomb.
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.
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?
custom false found gem great scale surface truth weighed whilst
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom