Lord Byron and When we two parted

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Lord Byron and When we two parted

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When We Two Parted When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. The dew of the morning Sunk chill on my brow-- It felt like the warning Of what I feel now. Thy vows are all broken, And light is thy fame; I hear thy name spoken, And share in its shame. They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear; A shudder comes o'er me-- Why wert thou so dear? They know not I knew thee, Who knew thee so well-- Long, long I shall rue thee, Too deeply to tell. In secret we met-- In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee?-- With silence and tears. 1 Khi đôi ta chia tay Lệ tuôn rơi lặng lẽ Nửa con tim tan vỡ Chia xa đến vạn năm Tái nhợt đôi má hồng Nụ hôn em lạnh lẽo Sự thật này báo trước Nỗi đau chẳng từ ai Sương lạnh buổi sáng mai Thấm lạnh bờ mi cay Phải chăng điềm cảnh báo Làm tim anh run sợ Lời thề em quên mất Để chạy theo danh vọng Anh nhắc tên em yêu Mà nghe thẹn thùng thế Ai kia gọi tên em Như tiếng chuông bên tai Làm run rẩy lòng anh Vì sao lại là em? Họ không biết một điều Anh biết em nhiều vậy Mãi hoài anh tiếc nuối Sâu lắng chẳng nên lời Âm thầm ta gặp gỡ Anh lặng lẽ buồn đau Tim em vô tình quá Hồn em sao gian dối Nếu anh gặp lại em Sau chừng ấy năm dài Anh chào em thế nào? Lặng im lệ sầu rơi. 2 Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) George Gordon Byron was born January 22, 1788 in Dover, England, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Byron was the son of Captain John 'Mad Jack' Byron and his third wife, the former Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent, somewhat hysterical woman in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Byron's paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral The Hon., John 'Foulweather Jack' Byron and Sophia Trevanion. Vice Admiral John Byron had circumnavigated the globe, and was the younger brother of the 5th Baron Byron, known as "the Wicked Lord". He was christened George Gordon Byron at St Marylebone Parish Church after his maternal grandfather, George Gordon of Gight, a descendant of King James I. This grandfather committed suicide in 1779. Byron's mother Catherine had to sell her land and title to pay her husband's debts. John Byron may have married Catherine for her money and, after squandering her fortune and selling her estate, having spent very little time with his wife and child in order to avoid creditors, he deserted them both and died a year later. Catherine regularly experienced mood swings and bouts of melancholy. Catherin Gordon, mother’s Byron Shortly thereafter Catherin took Byron back to Scotland and raised him in Aberdeen. On 21 May 1798, the death of Byron's great-uncle, the "wicked" Lord Byron, made the 10-year-old the 6th Baron Byron, and the young man then inherited both title and estate, Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, England. His mother proudly took him to England. Byron lived at his estate infrequently, as the Abbey was rented to Lord Grey de Ruthyn, among others, during Byron's adolescence. In August 1799, Byron entered the school of William Glennie, an Aberdonian in Dulwich.Byron received his early formal education at Aberdeen Grammar School. In 1801 he was sent to Harrow. In 1802, when Byron lived with his mother at Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, with the help of Elizabeth Pigot, who copied many of his rough drafts, he wrote first volumes of poetry. Fugitive Pieces was printed by Ridge of Newark. 3 In September, 1803, he refused to Harrow because of his love for Chaworth, who is portrayed as the first object of his adult sexual feelings in his memoirs. In January, 1804, Byron returned to Harrow, to a more settled period which saw the formation of a circle of emotional involvements with other Harrow boys, which he recalled with great vividness. Childish Recollections (1806) was nostalgic poems about his Harrow friendship. In 1805, Byron entered Trinity College where he met and formed a close friendship with the younger John Edleston. And then in his memory Byron composed Thyrza, a series of elegies. In 1807, it appeared Byron's first collection of poetry, Hours of Idleness, which collected many of the previous poems, along with more recent compositions, was the culminating book. In 1808, he had planned to spend cruising with his cousin George Bettesworth, but Bettesworth's unfortunate death at the Battle of Alvoen in May 1808 made that impossible. In 1809, he took up his seat in the House of Lords on 13 March, but left London on 11 Jun 1809 for the Continent From 1809 to 1811, he set out on his grand tour, visiting Spain, Malta, Albania, Greece, and the Aegean. In 1812, Byron embarked on a well-publicized affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public. However, when Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, they were received with acclaim. He followed up his success with the poem's last two cantos, as well as four equally celebrated Oriental Tales, The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, . He became an adored character of London society; he spoke in the House of Lords effectively on liberal themes, and had a hectic love-affair with Lady Caroline Lamb. During the summer of 1813 Byron apparently entered into a more than brotherly relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. In 1814 Augusta gave birth to a daughter, who was generally supposed to be Byron's. In the same year he wrote 'Lara,' a poem about a mystical hero, aloof and alien, whose identity is gradually revealed and who dies after a feud in the arms of his page. The Corsair (1814) Lara, a Tale (1814), sold 10,000 copies on the first day of publication. In 1815, Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke and their daughter Ada was born in the same year. The marriage was unhappy, and they obtained legal separation next year. At that time he wrote Hebrew Melodies (1815). Throughout his life, he fathered several illegitimate children and had numerous scandalous affairs, the most notorious being with his half-sister Augusta, his father's daughter by an earlier marriage. In 1816, he left London, never to return, to come to stay with the Shelleys in Geneva, 4 where he wrote The Prisoner of Chillon, The Siege of Corinth(1816), Parisina (1816),The Dream (1816),Prometheus (1816),Darkness (1816. In 1917, he journeyed to Rome. On returning to Venice, he wrote the fourth canto of Childe Harold. About the same time he sold Newstead and published Manfred, Cain and The Deformed Transformed. The first five cantos of Don Juan were written between 1818 and 1820, during which period he made the acquaintance of the young Countess Guiccioli, who found her first love in Byron, who in turn asked her to elope with him. In 1818,he wrote Beppo his first work in a new ironic style and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818). From 1821 to 1822, he finished Cantos 6–12 of Don Juan at Pisa, and in the same year he joined with Leigh Hunt and Percy Bysshe Shelleyin starting a short-lived newspaper, The Liberal, in the first number of which appeared The Vision of Judgment. And in 1822, his daughter Allegra died aged five of a fever in Bagna Cavallo, Italy while Byron was in Pisa. He had Allegra's body sent back to England to be buried at his old school, Harrow, because Protestants could not be buried in consecrated ground in Catholic countries. When Byron's mother-in-law, Judith Noel died in 1822, her will required that he change his surname to "Noel" in order to inherit half her estate. And then he also sometimes referred to as "Lord Noel Byron", as if "Noel" were part of his title. Fired by the Greek battle for independence from Turkey, Byron sailed to Missolonghi in 1824, where he gave money and inspiration to the rebels but died of a fever on 19 April before seeing action. Before Byron’s death, it was a shock in Britain. The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero. The national poet of Greece, Dionysius Solomon, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named To the Death of Lord Byron. He was the most notorious Romantic poet and satirist. Byron was famous in his lifetime for his love affairs with women and Mediterranean boys. He created his own cult of personality, the concept of the 'Byronic hero' - a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable in his past. Byron's influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries. 5 6 . When We Two Parted When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder. Scotland. Byron& apos;s paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral The Hon., John 'Foulweather Jack' Byron and Sophia Trevanion. Vice Admiral John Byron

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