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
coffee leave pity serious tea tis wine
Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious
although beverage born both fearful human love marriage rarely sign sober time tis vinegar wine
Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s
brink eternity puzzling tis
Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there
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
joy
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined
arrange focus moment themselves thoughtful thoughts wildest
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
bridge flying golden
I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge / Is for a flying enemy.
among shroud stood thoughts
I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
appear lady
I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
existence life love
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence
joy longer memory sorrow
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
book cannot minutes ought
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
thou wisest
Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.
beneath hath labor shall sun
Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sun the many still must labor for the one