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1788–1824 England
George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
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She walks the waters like a thing of life,
The Corsair (1814)
A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing,
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The power of thought,—the magic of the mind!
The Corsair (1814)
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.
Farewell!
The Corsair (1814)
Knowledge is not happiness, and science
Manfred (1817)
Fare thee well! and if forever,
There is a tide in the affairs of women,
Hark! to the hurried question of despair:
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron by Thomas Medwin (1823)
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
Beppo (1818)
The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Manfred (1817)
Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks,
Manfred (1817)
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep,
Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Beppo (1818)
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