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I am about to be married—and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.
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Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock.
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He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
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'Let there be light!' said God, and there was light!'
'Let there be blood!' says man, and there's a sea!
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Still I can't contradict, what so oft has been said,
'Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.'
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The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine.
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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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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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Dreading that climax of all human ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
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Just as old age is creeping on space,
And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,
They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,
But in good company—the gout or stone.
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Thou fatal Waterloo.
Millions of tongues record thee, and anew Their children's lips shall echo them, and say— "Here, where the sword united nations drew,
Our countrymen were warring on that day!"
And this is much, and all which will not pass away.
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And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth,
And that was shining on him.
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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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There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion.
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And trusted to thy billows far and near,
And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
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And Harold stands upon this place of skulls.
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How my soul hates This language,
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.
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Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.
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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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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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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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Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life
Into that moral centaur, man and wife?
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Born:
January 22, 1788
Died:
April 19, 1824
(aged 36)
Bio:
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.
Known for:
Don Juan
She Walks in Beauty
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Manfred
The Corsair
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