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Lord Byron
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“And there was mounting in hot haste.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! They come! they come!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Battle's magnificently stern array.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All is concentr'd in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The sky is changed,--and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have not loved the world, nor the world me.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo, The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,--too many, yet how few!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till--'t is gone, and all is gray.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The Ariosto of the North.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fills The air around with beauty.”
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“Let these describe the undescribable.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The starry Galileo with his woes.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The poetry of speech.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so,-- Not for thy faults, but mine.”
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“O Rome! my country! city of the soul!”
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“The Niobe of nations! there she stands.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Heaven gives its favourites--early death.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Tully was not so eloquent as thou, Thou nameless column with the buried base.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The nympholepsy of some fond despair.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source