Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813), line 675.

His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.

— Lord Byron on Soldiers

What It Means

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Lord Byron

About 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.