Lord Byron Quotes

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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Also known as: Byron, Byron, Lord, George Gordon Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, George Noel Gordon Byron, Lord Byron

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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane.

I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge
is for a flying enemy.

Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one
That begged Pedrillo for an absolution,
Who told him to be damn'd,—in his confusion.

Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)

His wretchedness, and his resistance,
And his sad unallied existence:
To which his spirit may oppose
Itself—and equal to all woes.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

For the night
Shows stars and women in a better light.

A lady of a 'certain age', which means
Certainly aged.

On the ear
Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

Forgetting that their pride of spirit,
Their exultation in their trial,
Detracts most largely from the merit
Of all their boasted self-denial.

Granta (1806)

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.

"Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore.

Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)

And both were young, and one was beautiful.

The Dream (1816)

When all of genius which can perish dies.

Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816)

Thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty.

What should it be, that thus their faith can bind?
The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!

The Corsair (1813)

He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.

Such is the aspect of this shore;
'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,
We start, for soul is wanting there.

The Giaour (1813)

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