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George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) wrote a great deal of poetry before his early death, in his mid-thirties, while fighting in Greece. But what are Byron’s best poems? Here we’ve selected some of his best-known and best-loved poems, spanning narrative verse, love poetry, simple lyrics, and longer comic works.
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. A heart whose love is innocent! Copyright Credit: George Gordon, Lord Byron. "She Walks in Beauty" from Hebrew Melodies. London: John Murray, 1832-33. Public Domain.
Lord Byron's poem is a brief but potent exploration of love that transcends ordinary bounds. Comprising only sixteen lines, the poem was designed with the intention of being set to music, evident not just in its title but also in its lyrical quality. The speaker's affection for the unnamed beloved is vividly portrayed through rich, sensory imagery.
The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English Romantic poets, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the early 1800s. He created an immensely popular Romantic hero—defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt—for which, to many, he seemed the model.
The complete poetical works of Lord Byron by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, author
A few of Byron's later poems have shared the fate of Southey's epics; and, yet, with something of Southey's persistence, Byron believed that posterity would weigh his "regular dramas" in a fresh balance, and that his heedless critics would kick the beam. But "can these bones live"?
Lord Byron Poems I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.