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
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.
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.
among shroud stood thoughts
I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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.
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
baffled battle bleeding oft though
For Freedom's battle once begun, / Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, / Though baffled oft is ever won.
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.
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.
roses save soft spirit
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.
dew drop falling perhaps produces small words
Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think
love life dying
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
kindness adversity not-giving-up
Adversity is the first path to truth.