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Baron Byron

Lord Byron, born on January 22, 1788, and died on April 19, 1824, was a prominent English Romantic poet. His poetry is characterized by its strong personality and passion, and has had a profound impact on literature.

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

World Life Years Waiting Wonder This World Depth Deeds Woe Piercings

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.”

Years Wisdom Exhausting Studious

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?”

Years Happiness Boys

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.”

Years Power Gray Shade Mist

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“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.”

Ifs Years Passion Leader Ready Creatures Fellows Vices Features Kicks Pleasant Cash Crowns Bribe Purchasing Bribery

Author:Lord Byron

“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.”

Years Evil Balance Draws Devil Conscience Accounts Debt Sixty Sixteen

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .”

Years Kind Evil Lines Reviews Thirteen

Author:Lord Byron

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

Men Years Night White Hair Grew Grey

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“When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove - The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.”

Years Firsts Stills Age Lasts Past Pleasure Blood Kissing Wings Remembrance Chill Memorial Sweetest Dove First Kiss

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears”

Ifs Should Years Heart Long Spirit Forget Secret Silence Tears Mets Thee Grieving Deceiving Should I

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“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.”

Years Moments Age Hate Dies Forget Pure Eternal Wings Endure Nameless Hope Love

Author:Lord Byron

“Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.”

Life Years Mind Fire Stealing Cups Limbs Vigor Enchanted Sparkle

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“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”

Years May States Form Change Hours Thousand Lays Ruins Scare Thousand Years Permanence

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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?”

Years Littles Moments Light Left Loses Imagination Memories Effort Cease Impression Our Memories Torches Luster Best Memories

Author:Lord Byron

“When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.”

Years Two Half Silence Tears Broken Hearted Parting Broken Hearted

Author:Lord Byron

“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.”

Years Flower Presses Rose Thee Tombs Turf

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.”

Life Years Long Ideas Hours Capable Long Life One Hour

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“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.”

Years May Past Lying Loss Existence Months Disease Thirds Eternity Leaving Ill Dust Thirty Resurrection January Successors Lingering Lethargy Expired

Author:Lord Byron

About the Author

Born: January 22, 1788
Died: April 19, 1824
Known for: Baron Byron
Quotes: 631

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