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
compound deity dirt inspired mind mixed sensuality soaring
What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
homer owes
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle
bark bay brighter coming draw eye hear honest mark near sweet tis watch welcome
Tis sweet to hear the watch dogs' honest bark - Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark - Our coming and look brighter when we come
fly hate mankind
To fly from, need not be to hate mankind
detest far haste longest love men
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
butler daughters grow run wives
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
downright eating infancy life remains summer
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.