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
fitzgerald shall tavern
Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?
blank written
He had written much blank verse, and blanker prose.
dislike draw general last literary men praised
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.
feared lost
All is to be feared where all is to be lost
free hereditary strike themselves
Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
angels learn
By many stories, / And true, we learn the angels are all Tories.
glory name
The glory and the nothing of a name
track guilt claims
To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
grateful skills coats
May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.
standards
And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
mortality mortals
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
adolescence
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming
track steps glory
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
turtles land sorrow
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!