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
blue control dark deep earth man marks ocean roll ruin stops sweep ten thee thou thousand
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin - his control / Stops with the shore.
brain forth frail hath senses sent thoughts wide wild
Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide
thou wisest
Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.
among shroud stood thoughts
I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
hunt rival though
Nay more, though all my rival rhymesters frown, / I too can hunt a poetaster down.
magic power thoughts-and-thinking
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
baffled battle bleeding oft though
For Freedom's battle once begun, / Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, / Though baffled oft is ever won.
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.
devil though women
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil
darkness glance great mutual passed though
Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness.
dust form hour lay scarce serve thousand
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust
arrange focus moment themselves thoughtful thoughts wildest
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
left linked name thousand virtue
He left a Corsair's name to other times, / Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
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.