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
said persons living-on
Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
hands years land
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
mistake snakes skins
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.
laughter laughing may
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
war knives cry
War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
military solitude carnage
He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
ocean mountain altars
My altars are the mountains and the ocean.
world depth truth-is
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
vineyards cellars
The very best of vineyards is the cellar
art men lasts
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.
ends difficult
Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
two hatred religion
I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.
blessing may has-beens
Come what may, I have been blest.
passion crowns pique
Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.