George Gordon Byron
Who is George Gordon Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Greek: Λόρδος Βύρων, romanized: Lórdos Výron; 22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), simply known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and peer. One of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, Byron is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. He remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.
He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa. During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Indepen...
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five.
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I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever
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- Quotableque: "sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest.
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- Quotableque: "if i am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and i envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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- Quotableque: "i must be myself. i cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. if you can love me for what i am, we shall be the happier.
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- Quotableque: "in solitude, where we are least alone.
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- Quotableque: "we are all fools in love.
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