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
angels learn
By many stories, / And true, we learn the angels are all Tories.
glory name
The glory and the nothing of a name
joy longer memory sorrow
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
left linked name thousand virtue
He left a Corsair's name to other times, / Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
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.
deception found friend
I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.
creed edge history-and-historians learning meditation shaped solemn studious weapon wisdom
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
desire greatest
The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
soul
That all-softening, overpowering knell, / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.
dust form hour lay scarce serve thousand
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust
appear lady
I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
appeal marks none tyranny
May none these marks efface! / For they appeal from tyranny to God.