John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5673 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5673 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,— Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 182. |
| Note 1. And thou vast ocean, on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace. Robert Montgomery: The Omnipresence of the Deity. [back] |