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
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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Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh give me back my heart!
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A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote,/ With just enough of learning to misquote.
bundle greatest john mankind
The world is a bundle of hay, / Mankind are the asses who pull; / Each tugs it a different way, / And the greatest of all is John Bull.
beauty friend man nor
Nor be, what man should ever be, / The friend of Beauty in distress?
beauty courage man possessed strength vices virtues
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
critics man ready save serve time
A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made
hath healer heart oh time-and-time-management
Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
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He was the mildest mannered man / That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
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Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin - his control / Stops with the shore.
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Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress
blush dared envy man name whom
The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one!
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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
romances
Romances I never read like those I have seen.