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
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Better to sink beneath the shock than molder piecemeal on the rock
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The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.
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The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
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My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.
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Talk six times with the same single lady and you may get the wedding dress ready
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Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
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Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
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I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome