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
consider met pat poetry
I have met with most poetry on trunks; so that I am pat to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship
deception found friend
I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.
deep discontent fit fly hate mind nor stir
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.
fly hate mankind
To fly from, need not be to hate mankind
art heart men none social true
To feel for none is the true social art of the world's stoics - men without a heart
free hereditary strike themselves
Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
break counted sun
He counted them at break of day - / And when the sun set where were they?
left linked name thousand virtue
He left a Corsair's name to other times, / Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
alike half sink soar
Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
barrier delight determined fierce flatter looked thirty veins work younger
I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.
cut man ship
He was the mildest mannered man / That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
loves
He who loves not his country, can love nothing
below clouds hate mountain peaks shall
He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below
blank written
He had written much blank verse, and blanker prose.