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• None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Self, Tears, Claims

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 24

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• Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

  Lord Byron

  Fire, Shining, Meat

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.258, The Floating Press

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• Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Blow, Coquette

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Selfish, World

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.41, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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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.

  Lord Byron

  Night, Men, Hair

  'The Prisoner of Chillon' (1816) st. 1

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• The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Losing, Cold

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Teaching, Mind

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• Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

  Lord Byron

  Dark, Egypt, Pyramids

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.724, Delphi Classics

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• [Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

  Lord Byron

  Language, Trouble, Rich

  "To Mr. Moore". From the Letters of Lord Byron, December 5, 1816.

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• There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Passion, Heart

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1469, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

  Lord Byron

  Wine, Flavor, Vinegar

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 5

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• Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
  And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
  That knows his rider.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 2

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• 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

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Flower, Years, Rose

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Clouds, Eagles

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Roving, Absence

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

  Lord Byron

  Feet, Ballet, Legs

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• I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Seduction, Poor

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Loss, Past

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• Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

  Lord Byron

  Prayer, Father, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

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• Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

  Lord Byron

  Clouds, Rocks, Long Ago

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• 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”

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• There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Dangerous

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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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?

  Lord Byron

  Memories, Light, Years

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• Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

  Lord Byron

  Other Worlds, Solitude, Sorrow

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