Quote #21

There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

More from Lord Byron

  1. There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me.
  2. I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
  3. A light broke in upon my brain, - It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard.
  4. Though the day of my Destiny's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many cou…
  5. Oh, God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood.
  6. In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spir…
  7. My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.
  8. The careful pilot of my proper woe.

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