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
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But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake
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He said / Little, but to the purpose.
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I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking.
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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.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies
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He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
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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.
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If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears
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I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
eruption high imagination intelligence means poet poetry prevents rank scale whose
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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Dark-heaving - boundless, endless, and sublime, / The image of eternity, the throne / Of the Invisible.
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The night shows stars and women in a better light