John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5668 George Gordon Noel Byron
NUMBER: | 5668 |
AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
QUOTATION: | Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head? |
ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 168. |