Poetry of Lord Byron
George Gordon Lord Byron
born 1788, died 1824 |
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Lord Byron - 26 poems
Many Are Poets Who Have Never
Penn'd
Many are poets who have never penn'd
Their inspiration, and perchance the best: [...]
Kirke White
Unhappy White!
while life was in its print, [...]
Crabbe
There be, who say, in these enlighten'd days,
That splendid lies are all the poet's praise; [...]
On This Day I Complete
My Thirty Sixth Year
'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move: [...]
"England! With
All Thy Faults I Love Thee Still,"
"England! with all thy faults I love thee still,"
I said at Calais, and have not forgot it; [...]
London
A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,
Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye [...]
Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore
"Adieu, adieu! my native shore
Fades o'er the waters blue; [...]
Freedom
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, bur flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind; [...]
The Maid Of Saragoza
At every turn Morena's dusky height
Sustains aloft the battery's iron load; [...]
Field Of Waterloo
Stop! - for thy tread is on an Empire's dust!
An Earthquake's spoil is sepulchred below! [...]
America
The name of Commonwealth is past and gone
O'er the three fractions of the groaning globe; [...]
Jephtha's Daughter
Since our Country, our God - Oh, my sire!
Demand that thy Daughter expire; [...]
Song Of Saul Before His Last Battle
Warriors and chiefs! should the shaft or the sword
Pierce me in leading the host of the Lord, [...]
The Wild Gazelle
The wild gazelle on Judah's hills
Exulting yet may bound, [...]
Vision of Belshazzar
The King was on his throne,
The Satraps throng'd the hall; [...]
The Plain Of Marathon
Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground;
No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, [...]
Ancient Greece
Clime of the unforgotten brave!
Whose land from plain to mountain-cave [...]
Modern Greece
The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung, [...]
The Dying Gladiator
I see before me the Gladiator lie:
He leans upon his hand - his manly brow [...]
She Walks In Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies; [...]
From "Mazeppa"
We met - we gazed - I saw, and sigh'd,
She did not speak, and yet replied; [...]
Fare Thee Well
Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well: [...]
Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer
Farewell! if ever fondest prayer
For other's weal avail'd on high, [...]
When We Two Parted
When we two parted
In silence and tears, [...]
Maid Of Athens, Ere We Part
Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh, give me back my heart! [...]
The Castled Crag Of Drachenfels
The castled crag of Drachenfels
Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, [...]
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