The Mountains look on Marathon
And Marathon looks to the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free... - Lord Byron
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The Mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks to the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free...
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Lord Byron
George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
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Birth Name:
George Gordon Byron
Alternative Names:
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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Noel Byron
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George Gordon Byron Lord
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George Gordon Byron, 6th Lord Byron
Few are my years, and, yet, I feel The World was ne’er design’d for me: Ah! why do dark’ning shades conceal The hour when man must cease to be? Once I beheld a splendid dream, A visionary scene of bliss; Truth! — wherefore did thy hated beam Awake me to a world like this?
The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name; But mine was like the lava flood That boils in Ætna’s breast of flame.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover — but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
