Lord Byron Quotes on Life
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Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
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Seek out - less often sought than found - A Soldier's Grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy Ground, And take thy Rest.
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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.
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I die-but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.
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She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
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But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar.
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Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity.
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The dust we tread upon was once alive.