Though mad Almanzor rhymed in Dryden’s days,
No sing-song Hero rants in modern plays;
Whilst modest Comedy her verse foregoes
For jest and pun in very middling prose.
-Byron
Posts Tagged ‘Byron’
A Poetic Pause (14)
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Byron, Conquest of Granada, Hints from Horace, John Dryden, poetry, pun on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Poetic Pause (12)
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Byron, Curse of Minerva, Elgin marbles, poetry on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First on the head of him who did this deed
My curse shall light,-on him and all his seed:
Without one spark of intellectual fire,
Be all the sons as senseless as the sire:
If one with wit the parent brood disgrace,
Believe him bastard of a brighter race.
-Byron
A Poetic Pause (8)
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Byron, Don Juan, joy, poetry, rapture on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An infant when it gazes on a light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As [...]
A Poetic Pause (5)
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Byron, Cape Horn, Kamchatka, poetry, waltz on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Can aught from cold Kamschatka to Cape Horn
With Waltz compare, or after Waltz be born?
-Byron
A Poetic Pause (1)
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Byron, Don Juan, poetry, slippers, stocking on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
But, what was shocking,
Her small snow feet had slippers, but no stocking.
-Byron
