She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender ligh ...
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on ...
Lord Byron may be regarded as one of England’s ... 4. His first smash-hit poem was loosely based on himself Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, a long narrative poem about travel and romance, was ...
In contrast, the five lowest-rated poems were all real, including Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31 and Chaucer’s Rondel of Merciless Beauty. As an example, Lord Byron’s ‘A Riddle, On the Letter E ...
The memorial stone to George, 6th Baron Byron in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey was given by the Poetry Society and unveiled on 8th ... is inlaid with gold Sienna marble lettering and reads: LORD ...
You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare features such as theme, form, structure, rhythm, language and ...