Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I (1812), Stanza 10.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

— Lord Byron on Parting

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.