The title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood. In a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Catherine was the second wife of John Byron. After the death of his former lover Robert (Clint Eastwood), Francesca (Meryl Streep) receives a box wih his personal items. He was an intelligent child of John (Mad Jack) Byron, a British army officer, while his mother, Catharine Gordon, was a ruined Scots Heiress. He is well-known as Lord Byron or the 6 th Baron Byron. Dedicated to “Ianthe”, it describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man, who is disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry and looks for distraction in foreign lands. George Gordon Byron was born on the 22 nd of January in 1788. Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies,Īnd send’st him, shivering in thy playful sprayĪnd howling, to his gods, where haply liesĪnd dashest him again to earth: -there let him lay.Ĭhilde Harold’s Pilgrimage is a long narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. Quote by Lord Byron: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, Ther. There Is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods. His steps are not upon thy paths,–thy fieldsĪnd shake him from thee the vile strength he wieldsįor earth’s destruction thou dost all despise, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain Stops with the shore –upon the watery plain Man marks the earth with ruin–his control Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean–roll! What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal. I love not Man the less, but Nature more,įrom these our interviews, in which I steal There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
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