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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Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim
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With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe
born happiness joy share
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
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.
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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil
roses save soft spirit
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.
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Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth
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To feel for none is the true social art of the world's stoics - men without a heart
fly hate mankind
To fly from, need not be to hate mankind
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To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind: / All are not fit with them to stir and toil, / Nor is it discontent to keep the mind / Deep in its fountain.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
detest far haste longest love men
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
life reward vicious
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.