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
alone burning rebel spirit weak
The spirit burning but unbent, / May writhe, rebel - the weak alone repent!
roses save soft spirit
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.
fixed improved less preparing seal species spiritual tenderness though wax
We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
course great keys spiritual
He pattered with his keys at a great rate, / And sweated through his apostolic skin: / Of course his perspiration was but ichor, / Or some such other spiritual liquor.
change dream spirit
A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
heart spirit worship
The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
mind liberty spirit
Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind
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.
dwelling-place desert spirit
Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister
dislike draw general last literary men praised
In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
love loves others scholars-and-scholarship woman
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
fate flow inward liver small
Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow
convert five four glad greater process prove sort though
I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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.