Byron: Two part thread of awesomness

[Madrun Badrun]

I don't want to start Don Juan or Childe Harold right now.

Also this is fucking beautiful. 


So We'll Go No More A-Roving

So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And Love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Leonard Cohen did a (perhaps slightly silly) musical rendition of that poem.  Schoenberg did a Sprechstimme setting of "Ode to Napoleon"

I like Byron's trash talk 'dedication' of Don Juan.

[Madrun Badrun]

Beppo + Mazeppa it is.  Thanks to the two people the posted. 

No one ever posts in the my threads  :'( :'( :'(

[Madrun Badrun]

Beppo was good. espacilly after watching the count of monte cristo last night.  Had a few good stanzas and a bit of wit, such as,

The morning now was on the point of breaking
A turn of time at which I would advise
Ladies who have been dancing, or partaking
In any other kind of exercise,
To make their preparations for forsaking
The ball-room ere the sun begins to rise,
Because when once the lamps and candles fail,
His blushes make them look a little pale.

On to the next one. 

[Ichirou]

Childe Harold is fucking short.

[Madrun Badrun]

its 180 pages.  I wanted something I could read for an hour or two and thats it. 

[Ichirou]

Fuck, somehow I thought you meant Browning's Childe Roland.  Yeah, Childe Harold is pretty long.  Sorry, I have a pretty bad throat infection.  I spent most of last night hallucinating weird shit.

[Madrun Badrun]

Childe Harold is fucking boring.  Almost done the first Canto now.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Romantic poetry isn't my thing at all or else I would comment positively.  Read some Yeats and we'll talk.

Keats > Yeats