Selected Long Quotations
“To Paralyze Posterity”
Please wait a few moments and he will give you his undivided attention.
I am
George Gordon Noel Byron
Lord Byron
Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale
in the county of Lancashire
I was born in London, England
on January 22nd 1788
and died at Missolonghi in Greece
on April 19th 1824.
And so, . . .
how it is it that fleshless as I am
I . . . still . . . scribble?
“Great Nemesis. . .
I call thee from the dust!
. . . in these pages a record will I seek . . .
Though I be ashes; this far hour shall wreak
the deep prophetic fullness of my verse. . .
Have I not had to wrestle with my lot?
Have I not had
my brain seared, my heart riven, hopes sapped,
name blighted, life lied away?
But there is that within me
which shall tire torture and time
and breathe when I expire;
something unearthly . . .
like the remember’d tone of a muted lyre. “
DETACHED THOUGHTS
WRITTEN IN ITALY
1821 — 1822
WHEN I WAS
IN MY THIRTY THIRD YEAR
Byron in
Military Uniform
Newstead Abbey
The Tempest,
by Giorgione