There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Related There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... GEORGE GORDON BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... LORD BYRON There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society wher... LORD BYRON There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society wher... GEORGE GORDON BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, w... LORD BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is societ... GEORGE GORDON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society,... GEORGE GORDON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is so... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... GEORGE GORDON BYRON The mind; it often clings to the road it knows, but there is a certain... NEENA H BRAR There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
- Lord Byron (George Gor... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where ther... SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE Without the orchestra of the universe, There would be no ether... SUZY KASSEM O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where the... SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and sing... KAMAND KOJOURI There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the s... COLUM MCCANN Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where th... FRANCIS OF ASSISI Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor ... BIBLE I had spent the day friendless, lonely and sad, a stranger to myself. GULZAR I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Though it's fearful, Though it's deep, though it's dark And though you may lose the path... STEPHEN SONDHEIM When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. Hi... ROBERT FROST My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I ... نزار قباني Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul... W.B. YEATS There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must al... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you... EDGAR ALLAN POE ... You are here again, so realistic, just, the golden dawn takes you away ZORICA SAVRON Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK There rolls the deep where grew the tree O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where... ALFRED TENNYSON On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the... KAHLIL GIBRAN There is a place born of silence A place where the whispers of the heart arise. There is a... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I will arise and go now, And go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, Of clay ... W.B. YEATS We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense; more knowled... DALAI LAMA My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show app... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "Conversation" God and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . "And wh... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you, I cannot... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Sounds Is Love of All, the World Sounds create soulful existence, When the ... JOHN SHELTON JONES A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Su... ALEXANDER POPE It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom y... EDGAR ALLAN POE Cast up the heart flops over gasping 'Love' a foolish fish which tries to draw<... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I Go Down To The Shore I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on... MARY OLIVER The Awakening I dreamed that I was a rose That grew beside a lonely way, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING He says, "Keats for my Keats. Look inside." I gently open the cover. Inside, written in pencil,... JILLIAN DODD You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Love Was Love Will Be But Most of All, Love is. Life Cannot Be Without It I... CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA for you to see beauty here does not mean there is beauty in me it means there is beau... RUPI KAUR STARS AND DANDELIONS Deep in the blue sky, like pebbles at the bottom of the sea, lie... MISUZU KANEKO Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name M... CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind ther... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of ... EDGAR ALLAN POE There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U... ANGIE KARAN Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing throug... MARY OLIVER If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw,
Here and there a patch of sn... CHRISTOPHER PEARCE CRANCH There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of... FRIEDRICH SCHILLER There is a girl. I named her love. She has a father. His name is desire. Her mo... DEBASISH MRIDHA And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong,... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometime... V.E. SCHWAB In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do w... JESS ROTHENBERG As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practica... CHARLES OLSON The Volunteer AT dawn, he said, I bid them all farewell, To go where bugles call and rifl... ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed t... PABLO NERUDA Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; Wh... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON All farewells should be sudden, when forever. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The dew of compassion is a tear. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated wi... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and ... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Fame is the thirst of youth. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very t... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervant... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close ... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I stee... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days --... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's la... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Think not I am what I appear. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution,... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spit... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON That low vice, curiosity! LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thou... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, ... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pict... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of b... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and... 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