Lord Byron Quotes - Page 22

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• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Roving, Absence

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

  Lord Byron

  Brother, Sight, Heaven

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Teaching, Mind

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• Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Wife, Laura

  Don Juan canto 3, st. 8 (1821)

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• The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Losing, Cold

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

  Lord Byron

  Grateful, Skills, Coats

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• Venice once was dear,
  The pleasant place of all festivity,
  The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

  Lord Byron

  Venice, Earth, Masque

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.84, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
  And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
  That knows his rider.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 2

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• Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
  On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
  But on thy turf shall roses rear
  Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

  Lord Byron

  Flower, Years, Rose

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

  Lord Byron

  Feet, Ballet, Legs

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• Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Loss, Past

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• I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Seduction, Poor

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• Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

  Lord Byron

  Prayer, Father, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

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• There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Dangerous

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

  Lord Byron

  Memories, Light, Years

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• Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

  Lord Byron

  Other Worlds, Solitude, Sorrow

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• Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, Years, Leader

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• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Laughing, Spain

  "Don Juan".

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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Military, Humorous

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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.

  Lord Byron

  Birthday, Soul, Age

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

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• 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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  Death, Desire, Certain

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Routledge

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Grief, Believe

  LORD BYRON. (1819). “CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE”, p.62

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• But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

  Lord Byron

  Daughter, Flower, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

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• He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Riding, Fencing

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.144, Routledge

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• Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

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  Hate, Years, Wings

  George Gordon Byron, “When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay”

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