Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 182. Same idea found in Mme. de Staël—Corinne, Book I, Chapter IV (Pub. before Byron).
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Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
— Lord Byron on Oceans
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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.
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.
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