11 Lord Byron Quotes on Death

Lord Byron quotes on death

4. 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.

11. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow.

12. And thou wert lovely to the last, Extinguish'd, not decay'd; As stars that shoot along the sky Shine brightest as they fall from high.

43. My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of Love are gone; The worm - the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!

65. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,- The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.

73. I die-but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

87. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.

89. When all of genius which can perish dies.

91. Who track the steps of glory to the grave.

112. Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity.

123. If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: 'Byron is dead!'

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