Lord Byron on Men
1788–1824 England
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Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar.
Manfred (1817)
Man!
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,
And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.
Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816)
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
The precious porcelain of human clay.