John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5669 George Gordon Noel Byron
NUMBER: | 5669 |
AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
QUOTATION: | Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, 1 With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And hating no one, love but only her! |
ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 177. |
Note 1. See Cowper, Quotation 51. [back] |