John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5611 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5611 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium’s capital had gather’d then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o’er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look’d love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 21. |