George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) lived a short life, but he had it all. Highly-fashionable, flamboyant and known for being…
‘T is pity learned virgins ever wedWith persons of no sort of education,Or gentlemen, who, though well born and bred,Grow…
Her favourite science was the mathematical,Her noblest virtue was her magnanimity,Her wit (she sometimes tried at wit) was Attic all,Her…
I want a hero: an uncommon want,When every year and month sends forth a new one,Till, after cloying the gazettes…
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in…
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in…
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;And the sheen…
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society where none intrudes,By…