Lord Byron Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

• Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Ocean, Dark

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

• I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

  Lord Byron

  Government, People, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3005, Delphi Classics

• There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Fifteenth”

• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Angel

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour”

• The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Time, Stars

• Venice once was dear,
  The pleasant place of all festivity,
  The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

  Lord Byron

  Venice, Earth, Masque

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.84, Sheba Blake Publishing

• The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

  Lord Byron

  Dog, Fall, Heart

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

• Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

  Lord Byron

  Retirement, Mind, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics

• Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Men, Light Waves

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

• When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Science, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Tenth”

• In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Heaven, Earth

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

• But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

  Lord Byron

  Daughter, Flower, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

• He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Earth, Judged

  "Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

• I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.

  Lord Byron

  Moon, Sky, Rivers

• The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Disappointment, Discovery

• With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Our World, Sea

• So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

  Lord Byron

  Dark, Fire, Flames

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour”

• Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

  Lord Byron

  Three, Earth, Remnants

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.139, Xist Publishing

• The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

  Lord Byron

  Law, Heaven, Heaven And Earth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

• All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Silence, Heaven

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.76, Sheba Blake Publishing

• But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
  The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
  Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
  Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Flower, Health

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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