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Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

Lord Byron
Departed, Fallen, Immortal
'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 73

It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

Lord Byron
Country, Destiny, Interesting
From the Letters of Lord Byron, January 2, 1817.

I see before me the gladiator lie.

Lord Byron
Lying, Agony
Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

Fills The air around with beauty.

Lord Byron
Beauty, Air
Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

Lord Byron
Ocean, Mountain, Altars
Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Lord Byron
Literature, Nostalgia, Old Time
"The Age of Bronze" st. 1 (1823)

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Lord Byron
Literature, Merit, Findings

He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

Lord Byron
Literature, Earth, Judged
"Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

Lord Byron
Men, Oracles, Conscience
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Lord Byron
Hypocrisy, Pay, England

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

Lord Byron
Dog, Fall, Heart
George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

I loved my country, and I hated him.

Lord Byron
Country, Hated
Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.282, Routledge

Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

Lord Byron
Happiness, Boys, Years
Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

Lord Byron
Men, Virtue, Crime

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

Lord Byron
Cheer, Inspire, World
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

Lord Byron
White, Pearls, Champagne

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

Lord Byron
Hands, Bridges, Venice
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 1 (1818)

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

Lord Byron
Salt, Refinement, Expenses

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Lord Byron
Passion, People, Literature
Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.20, Gerald Duckworth & Co

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

Lord Byron
Fall, Rome, World
'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

Lord Byron
Love Is, Heaven, Grove
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2206, Delphi Classics

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Lord Byron
Scandal, Form, Dissection
LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.8

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

Lord Byron
Blessed, May, Firsts
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.776, Delphi Classics

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

Lord Byron
Pain, Forever, Tears

Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

Lord Byron
Night, Slumber, Prom
Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.113, Cambridge University Press