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Lord Byron
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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.”
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Recorded in: The First Kiss of Love, st. 7 (1806).
“Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.”
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Recorded in: Farewell! if ever fondest Prayer (1808).
“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel — farewell! farewell!”
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Recorded in: Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer (1808), st. 2.
“When we two parted In silence and tears, Half brokenhearted, To sever for years.”
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Recorded in: When We Two Parted (1808), stanza 1.
“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.”
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Recorded in: When We Two Parted (1808), st. 4.
“Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a DOG”
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Recorded in: Inscription on the monument of a Newfoundland dog (1808).
“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”
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Recorded in: Inscription on the monument of a Newfoundland dog (1808).
“Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!”
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Recorded in: Maid of Athens, st. 1 (1810).
“The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow.”
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Recorded in: And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair (1812).
“And thou wert lovely to the last, Extinguish'd, not decay'd; As stars that shoot along the sky Shine brightest as they fall from high.”
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Recorded in: And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair (1812).
“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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Recorded in: Journal for Saturday, 27th November 1813; Quoted in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore (1830), Vol III, Chap. XVII, p. 208
“Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the Great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best — The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeath'd the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but one!”
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Recorded in: Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, st. 29 (1814).
“You are the fools, not I — for I did dwell With a deep thought, and with a softened eye, On that Old Sexton's natural homily, In which there was Obscurity and Fame, The Glory and the Nothing of a Name.”
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“Who knows whether, when a comet shall approach this globe to destroy it, as it often has been and will be destroyed, men will not tear rocks from their foundations by means of steam, and hurl mountains, as the giants are said to have done, against the flaming mass?—and then we shall have traditions of Titans again, and of wars with Heaven.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin (1832).
“My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.”
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Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Moore (9 April 1814).
“Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel.”
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Recorded in: Fare Thee Well, st. 1 (1816).
“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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Recorded in: The Prisoner of Chillon, st. 1 (1816).
“Oh, God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood.”
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“A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard.”
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“There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.”
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Recorded in: Stanzas for Music (March 1815), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me.”
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Recorded in: Stanzas for Music, st. 1 (1816).
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”
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Recorded in: Darkness, line 1 (1816).
“Though the day of my Destiny's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.”
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Recorded in: Stanzas to Augusta, st. 1 (1816).
“In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.”
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Recorded in: Stanzas to Augusta (1816), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The careful pilot of my proper woe.”
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Recorded in: Epistle to Augusta, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“As the liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Shall die fighting or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd!”
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Recorded in: Song for the Luddites (1816).
“My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea; But, before I go, Tom Moore. Here's a double health to thee!”
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Recorded in: To Thomas Moore, st. 1 (1817).
“Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate: And, whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.”
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“Were't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink, Ere my fainting spirit fell 'T is to thee that I would drink.”
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Recorded in: To Thomas Moore, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Bring forth the horse!" — the horse was brought; In truth, he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs.”
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Recorded in: Mazeppa (1819), stanza 9.
“And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.”
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Recorded in: Mazeppa (1819), stanza 10.
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome And get knock'd on the head for his labours. To do good to mankind is the chivalrous plan, And is always as nobly requited; Then battle for freedom wherever you can. And, if not shot or hang'd, you'll get knighted.”
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Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Moore, 5 November 1820
“Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.”
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Recorded in: Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa, st. 1 (1821).
“The best of prophets of the future is the past.”
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Recorded in: Journal (28 January 1821).
“The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way— And the greatest of all is John Bull!”
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Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Moore (22 June 1821).
“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.”
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Recorded in: Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).
“Because He is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow? I judge but by the fruits—and they are bitter— Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.”
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Recorded in: Cain (1821), Act I, sc. i.
“I live, But live to die: and, living, see no thing To make death hateful, save an innate clinging, A loathsome and yet all invincible Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I Despise myself, yet cannot overcome— And so I live. Would I had never lived!”
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Recorded in: Cain (1821), Act I, sc. i.
“That which I am, I am; I did not seek For life, nor did I make myself.”
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Recorded in: Cain (1821), Act III, sc. i.
“Who killed John Keats? "I," says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly; "'Twas one of my feats.”
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Recorded in: John Keats (c. 1821).
“He seems To have seen better days, as who has not Who has seen yesterday?”
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Recorded in: Werner, Act I, sc. i (1822).
“What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!”
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Recorded in: The Deformed Transformed, Act III, sc. i (1824).
“My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of Love are gone; The worm — the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!”
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Recorded in: On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, st. 2 (1824).
“Seek out — less often sought than found — A Soldier's Grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy Ground, And take thy Rest.”
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“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
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Recorded in: Memorandum reference to the instantaneous success of Childe Harold and quoted in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore (1830), chapter 14.
“A great poet belongs to no country; his works are public property, and his Memoirs the inheritance of the public.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin (1832), Preface.
“Hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.”
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Recorded in: The Waltz, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“They never fail who die In a great cause.”
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Recorded in: Marino Faliero, Act II, Scene 2, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
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Recorded in: Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington (1834).
“Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!”
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Recorded in: Lara, Canto I, Stanza 2, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).