Quotes by Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, became famous in 1812 with the first cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. He left England in 1816 and died of fever in 1824 at Missolonghi in Greece, where he had gone to support the Greek War of Independence.
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, / ’Tis woman’s whole existence;
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is a rapture on the lonely shore, / There is society where none intrudes, / By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: