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What does it mean?
The quote is a bibliographic reference to Lord Byron's poem 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' written between 1812 and 1818.
In plain terms
Lord Byron authored 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812‑1818).
What can you take from it?
Explore Byron's work for Romantic poetry insights.

Where it applies

  • academic study
  • personal reading

Putting it to work

  • read the poem
  • analyze its themes

Questions to consider

  • What themes does Byron explore in the poem?
  • How does the work reflect its era?

Another view

No interpretive content is provided, only a citation.

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  1. When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sw…

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  2. Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

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  3. I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

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