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
bread nursery smell utter
The nursery still lisps out in all they utter -/ Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
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.
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.
bridge flying golden
I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge / Is for a flying enemy.
music sweet voice waters
Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.
among shroud stood thoughts
I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
appear lady
I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
existence life love
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence
element hardly passion
Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate.
beneath hath labor shall sun
Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sun the many still must labor for the one