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
heart itself love pause soul sword wears
The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
life man moral souls virtuous
Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life / Into that moral centaur, man and wife?
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
heart itself love pause soul sword wears
For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
soul
That all-softening, overpowering knell, / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.
everybody grand human persuaded soul
It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' --but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it --the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
heart skies soft soul sunny within
Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies
soul immortality said
It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
soul age coal
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.
soul insane delight
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane
soul sculpture form
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
spiritual soul-and-body imagine
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.
soul domes palaces
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
men soul whiteness
He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.