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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died 201 years ago #OTD, 19 April 1824

Byron included this poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving

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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…

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 1d ago

Byron’s poem ☝️ borrows from the Scottish song “The Jolly Beggar” – often attributed to King James V (who reputedly liked to disguise himself as “the Gudeman of Ballangeich” to enjoy amorous adventures)

From Cromek’s SELECT SCOTTISH SONGS (1810):

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Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 1d ago

“No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end.”

—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMORIES & PORTRAITS

Stevenson’s MEMORIES & PORTRAITS, a collection of autobiographical essays, is available as a free download from @gutenberg_org

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