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• Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

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  Sunset, Clouds, Space

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• Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

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  Love, Turtles, Land

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics

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• Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

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  Dark, Egypt, Pyramids

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.724, Delphi Classics

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• And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

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  Wrinkles, Democrat

  "Don Juan". Canto X, Stanza 24. Poem by Lord Byron, 1818-1824.

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• The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

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  Ocean, Monsters, Thrones

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

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  Night, Men, Hair

  'The Prisoner of Chillon' (1816) st. 1

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• Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

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  Past, Lasts, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

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  Two, Hatred, Religion

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2722, Delphi Classics

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• Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain

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  Pain, Fate, Men

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• Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

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  Spring, Flower, Joy

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.198, Delphi Classics

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• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

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  Science, Soul, Age

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• It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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  Time, Giving, Agitation

  "Poet of all the passions" by Fiona MacCarthy, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.

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• But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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  Years, Evil, Balance

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.

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  Sleep, Reality, Two

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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• Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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  Men, Land, Voice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

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  Pain, Hate, Add

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• What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

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  God, Men, Climate

  Don Juan canto 1, st. 63 (written 1818)

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• Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

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  Fire, Shining, Meat

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.258, The Floating Press

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• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

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  Country, Hunting, Literature

  'The Age of Bronze' (1823) st. 14

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• Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

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  Sports, Autumn, Nuts

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

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• As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

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  Life, Wall, Writing

  On 'Don Juan' in a letter to Douglas Kinnaird, October 26 1819: L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

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• Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

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  Heads Or Tails, Axes, Wind

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim; Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

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  Sports, Sweet, Party

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.408, Xist Publishing

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• Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

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  Heart, Blow, Coquette

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

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  Passion, Please Me, Goes On

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