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
dreams hath realm sleep touch wide wild
Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
differ dress hardly manners smoothed society
Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress
bored bores formed mighty polished society
Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored
opening
Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
ages bounds changes except lapse man stars
The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
attain fear land plenty shore
The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.
bundle greatest john mankind
The world is a bundle of hay, / Mankind are the asses who pull; / Each tugs it a different way, / And the greatest of all is John Bull.
sleep heaven silence
All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
fall men land
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
selfish trust-no-one literature
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
views mind break-out
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
unhappy literature sometimes
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
earth literature judged
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
book regulation fit
Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.