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:
- Source
- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, stanza 178, 1818
- Written
- 1818
About this quotation
The stanza goes on, “I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” It comes in the fourth and last canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, published in 1818 after Byron had left England for good.