The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
1818
Lord Byron didn't just write poetry, he invented a version of himself that still haunts literature today. This volume gathers the complete poetic works of the 19th century's most rebellious genius: the creator of the Byronic hero, the aristocrat who scandalized Europe, the man who died for Greek independence at thirty-six. Here is Childe Harold, that weary young nobleman wandering through Albania, Greece, Spain, and Portugal, meditating on empire, nature, and his own disillusionment. Here is Don Juan, Byron's furious, funny, sexually anarchic masterpiece of satire. Here too are the Hebrew Melodies, the gothic tales, and, appearing in digital print for the first time, Byron's vampire fragment, a precursor to every bloodsucker that followed. Also included: his letters, his journals, and John Galt's pioneering biography, which traces the arc of a life as dramatic as any poem. This is Byron unbound: passionate, profane, politically explosive, and utterly unrepentant. For readers who want to understand where modern literary darkness comes from, this is the source.
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“There are two Souls, whose equal flow In gentle stream so calmly run, That when they part”
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
“By day or night, in weal or woe, That heart, no longer free, Must bear the love it cannot show, And silent ache for thee.””
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
“Man. (alone). We are the fools of Time and Terror: DaysSteal on us, and steal from us; yet we live,Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.In all the days of this detested yoke”
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
“The blest are the dead,Who see not the sightOf their own desolation; 50This work of a night”
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
“Man. I tell thee, man! I have lived many years,Many long years, but they are nothing nowTo those which I must number: ages”
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
“FILL THE GOBLET AGAIN A Song Fill the goblet again! for I never before Felt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core; Let us drink!”
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
“XXII. By those, that deepest feel, is ill exprest The indistinctness of the suffering breast; Where thousand thoughts begin to end in one, 1810 Which seeks from all the refuge found in none; No words suffice the secret soul to show, For Truth denies all eloquence to Woe. On Conrad’s stricken soul Exhaustion prest, And Stupor almost lulled it into rest; So feeble now”
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
“The constitution of Darvell, which must from his appearance have been in early life more than usually robust, had been for some time gradually giving away, without the intervention of any apparent disease: he had neither cough nor hectic, yet he became daily more enfeebled; his habits were temperate, and he neither declined nor complained of fatigue; yet he was evidently wasting away: he became more and more silent and sleepless, and at length so seriously altered, that my alarm grew proportionate to what I conceived to be his danger.””
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
“She was like me in lineaments”
— George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
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