Lord Byron Quotes
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!
Byron, George Gordon. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 7, John Murray, 1904, p. 86.
On the morning of August 4, 1974, hours before his resignation in disgrace, President Richard M. Nixon called the Senator to say good-bye.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS known simply as Lord Byron, was an English peer, who was a poet and politician. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. He remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.